Teaching Tolerance: What To Do About the Civil War?

What To Do About the Civil War?: "
The Teaching Tolerance team had a confab earlier this week
to plan ahead. Looking at a 2011 calendar, Sean Price, Teaching Tolerance’s
managing editor, reminded me that the 150^th anniversary of the start
of the Civil War was fast approaching. Did we want to do something?

My first response? Frankly, no. As a former U.S. history
teacher, I suspected that the next four years will present an unending
opportunity mainly for military history buffs to strut their stuff. We would, I
suggested to Sean, better serve teachers by focusing on the themes that spoke
to racial justice.