Nicholas Kryczka
Biographic Data
| ID | 3090116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Kryczka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kryczka |
| SIGNATURE | KRYCZKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newberry Library |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1839-6854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Today's Culture War over History Teaching
Changing the Subject in the School Wars
What on earth are our school children learning about US history?"At the turn of the 2020s, American pundits posed the question rhetorically-and then proceeded to answer it, without evidence, and in service of partisan tastes.On the one hand were progressive commentators who declared that the typical US history curriculum was a whitewashed fable that suppressed uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. 1 On the other were conservative activists…
Good Question
“Testing procedure and technique, P.S. 19.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. How can we ask our students questions about the past that begin to reveal the motives of historical actors, address the interplay of structure and agency, and investigate the collision of long-run continuities and sudden contingencies? Over the last t…
Operation Breadbasket
Building a Constituency for Racial Integration
Chicago's magnet schools were one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice-driven school desegregation, originating among civil rights advocates and academic education experts in the 1960s and appearing at specific sites in Chicago's urban landscape during the 1970s. The specific concerns that motivated the creation of magnet schools during the civil rights era—desegregating schools and arresting white flight—were decisively wedded to notio…
Changing the Subject in the School Wars
What on earth are our school children learning about US history?"At the turn of the 2020s, American pundits posed the question rhetorically-and then proceeded to answer it, without evidence, and in service of partisan tastes.On the one hand were progressive commentators who declared that the typical US history curriculum was a whitewashed fable that suppressed uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. 1 On the other were conservative activists…
Building a Constituency for Racial Integration
Chicago's magnet schools were one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice-driven school desegregation, originating among civil rights advocates and academic education experts in the 1960s and appearing at specific sites in Chicago's urban landscape during the 1970s. The specific concerns that motivated the creation of magnet schools during the civil rights era—desegregating schools and arresting white flight—were decisively wedded to notio…
Building a Constituency for Racial Integration
Chicago's magnet schools were one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice-driven school desegregation, originating among civil rights advocates and academic education experts in the 1960s and appearing at specific sites in Chicago's urban landscape during the 1970s. The specific concerns that motivated the creation of magnet schools during the civil rights era—desegregating schools and arresting white flight—were decisively wedded to notio…
Operation Breadbasket
Good Question
“Testing procedure and technique, P.S. 19.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. How can we ask our students questions about the past that begin to reveal the motives of historical actors, address the interplay of structure and agency, and investigate the collision of long-run continuities and sudden contingencies? Over the last t…
Changing the Subject in the School Wars
What on earth are our school children learning about US history?"At the turn of the 2020s, American pundits posed the question rhetorically-and then proceeded to answer it, without evidence, and in service of partisan tastes.On the one hand were progressive commentators who declared that the typical US history curriculum was a whitewashed fable that suppressed uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. 1 On the other were conservative activists…
The Politics of Today's Culture War over History Teaching
Political science (4 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · Civil rights (2 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)