AHA President and Executive Director Publish Op-Ed on “Divisive Concepts” Legislation (October 2021)

AHA president Jacqueline Jones and executive director James Grossman published an op-ed in The Hill about “bad legislation” enacted in Texas and other states on “divisive concepts” in history education. “We cannot, and should not, expect teachers to offer ‘opposing’ views on the essence of either slavery or genocide,” they wrote, “except as a way to show how controversies emerged over such inhumane aspects of our past.”