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Saving Public Schools Without Talking About Race
Introducing my new article on HOPE and Georgia's school integration crisis
Feb 6
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Joseph Nichols
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January 2026
How to Read Yesterday's Classrooms
A guide to the site, it's focus on the history of American education, and the questions that shape it
Jan 31
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Joseph Nichols
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Race, Schooling, and the Myth of Linear Progress
A beginner's guide to how desegregation, resistance, and institutions shaped American education
Jan 30
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Joseph Nichols
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June 2023
A Bircher Take Over of Education
How Mom's for Liberty builds on the John Birch Society's push into PTAs in the 1960s
Jun 30, 2023
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Joseph Nichols
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January 2023
The rise of the New Deal and the decline of Jim Crow
Historian Jason Morgan Ward on Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge's response to the New Deal
Jan 12, 2023
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Joseph Nichols
December 2022
"Principals Gloomy Over Private Schools."
White flight from public education
Dec 20, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
"An almost endless variety of methods" for non-compliance
White Mississippi's response to Brown v. Board of Education
Dec 6, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
November 2022
The troubling legacy of white democracy
On December 9, 1905, in the little town of Baxley, GA, some 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, gubernatorial candidate Hoke Smith, who was the former U.S.
Nov 22, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
“I wished I didn’t have to keep on those white gloves but I kept them on.”
HOPE, southern white women, and the desegregation of public schools
Nov 8, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
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October 2022
Robert Shaw Elementary
The closing of the last traditionally Black school in DeKalb County, Georgia (1969)
Oct 25, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
Closing Black schools to achieve integration
DeKalb County, Georgia and the closing of Hamilton High School
Oct 11, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
September 2022
The Southern Manifesto: Who didn't sign? And why?
In February 1956, a delegation of southern senators met in the office of Sen.
Sep 27, 2022
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Joseph Nichols
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