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U.S. History Teaching Beyond the Culture Wars: A Lecture-Discussion with Historian Nick Kryczka

"What on earth are schoolchildren being taught about their nation's history?" At the turn of the 2020s, political pundits posed this question rhetorically and then answered it in service of their partisan tastes. Progressives declared that history was being whitewashed. Conservatives claimed that students were being brainwashed. Two years ago, researchers with the American Historical Association (AHA) took the question seriously and conducted a nationwide study of US history teaching. On November 20, 2024, historian and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) alumnus Nicholas Kryczka presented the AHA research team's findings and their implications for how we teach an honest, compelling, and rigorous American history in a landscape defined by culture war. Nicholas (Nick) Kryczka is a scholar-in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Between 2022 and 2024, he was the research coordinator and lead author for the American Historical Association’s nationwide study of secondary US History education–the topic of this presentation. Nick earned his PhD in history at the University of Chicago, where he also worked subsequently as a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the social sciences. He has also worked as a lecturer in American Studies and American Politics at Lake Forest College. Previously, Nick taught high school social studies for a decade in the Chicago Public Schools, and has developed K–12 history curriculum for the Newberry Library and the Chicago Collections Consortium. Nick's work has appeared in the American Historical Review, History of Education Quarterly, the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Association, and Time Magazine. Nick is currently at work on a book, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, on the history of school reform in late 20th-century Chicago. Shira Hoffer served as respondent following Nick's presentation. Shira is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Multipartisan Education. A senior at Harvard College studying Social Studies and Religion, she served on Harvard Dean Rakesh Khurana’s Intellectual Vitality Committee for two years, advising and presenting on new strategies for promoting curious and constructive disagreement inside and out of Harvard’s classrooms. She is a former fellow and research assistant at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics’ Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Program, and a practicing mediator in Massachusetts courts. She has experience in interfaith and Israel/Palestine dialogue, and is particularly passionate about helping schools with issues related to religion and substantial political disagreement. This event was sponsored by the NEIU History Department, the NEIU Libraries, and the Institute for Multipartisan Education.