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Learning from History: Monuments, Critical Race Theory, and the Teaching of History
November 30 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
As a part of the Learning from History Series and Common CAHSS: Truth: Information, Misinformation, and Democracy, professors Heidi Sherman, History and Humanities (UW-Green Bay), Mark Karau, History and Humanities, (UW-Green Bay), David Voelker, History and Humanities, (UW-Green Bay), and Jillian Jacklin, History and Democracy and Justice Studies, (UW-Green Bay) will hold a panel and discuss what can be learned from history.
In the past year and a half, two developments have brought to the fore the role history plays in society, as a discipline and as a form of collective memory. In the summer of 2020, resulting from the Black Lives Matter protests that spread around the world, there has been a wave of groups calling for the removal of confederate statues in the United States and monuments to a variety of imperialists in other countries. In 2021, there have been numerous criticisms of Critical Race Theory and calls for it to be eliminated from elementary and high schools. Several states now have passed laws in an effort to eliminate the influence of the theory with a significant impact on how history is taught since such laws often address how race may be taught in schools. This panel will examine the impact these developments have had on how history is and may be taught.
This is an in-person event open to the public that is being held in the Weidner Theatre (1st Floor, Jean Weidner Theatre) on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Main Campus.
Sponsored by the Department of History and the Cofrin Library.
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