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As educators grapple with the latest attempts to stifle honest classroom discussions about white supremacy, the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Learning for Justice project has released a new episode of its to help K-12 teachers avoid false narratives about the Confederacy and the Civil War.

Now in Season 4, the podcast series offers advice and history lessons for teachers through conversations with scholars and educators. Episode 5 鈥� 鈥淐orrecting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost Cause鈥� 鈥� can be heard .

The latest episode features an interview with , author of No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, which examines the polarizing debate around Confederate monuments in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. Cox is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches Southern history and culture.聽

鈥淚 don鈥檛 teach critical race theory 鈥� I teach history,鈥� Cox said about recent efforts to undermine classroom discussions about racial injustice. 鈥淎nd if you study history, then you have to understand the significance of race and slavery and segregation.鈥�

During the episode, Cox offers insight to help educators build awareness about false narratives drawn by publications such as Edward Pollard鈥檚 1866 book, The Lost Cause, a revisionist history of the Confederacy that has found its way into classroom textbooks. Cox suggests educators use primary sources to help tell the true story.

On the topic of why educators should take on difficult conversations about race and white supremacy, Cox said: 鈥淚 think this is a topic that speaks to the diversity of your students and their experiences. And what it may feel like for a young white student is going to be different from how it may feel for a person of color or maybe a new immigrant in the community that may be in your classroom. I think it鈥檚 also important that we are educating this generation of students to be thoughtful, well-informed citizens so that, hopefully, they can avoid the pitfalls of false narratives that get perpetuated in politics and in popular culture.鈥�

The full episode and more from the Teaching Hard History podcast are available . The podcast is also available via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

Learning for Justice established the Teaching Hard History podcast after releasing a report by the same name in 2018 that found schools were not adequately educating students about African enslavement as part of America鈥檚 history.

The research showed that educators wanted to teach this history but lacked the resources to do it well. Learning for Justice has since expanded its to include lessons on Indigenous enslavement and to reach students in grades K-12.

Learning for Justice offers a variety of tools to help educators discuss race and other social justice topics at .