In episode 198, Dan and Michael chat with Stephen Jackson about his 2022 book, “The patchwork of world history in Texas high schools: Unpacking Eurocentrism, imperialism, and nationalism in the curriculum, 1920-2021.”

Transcript 

Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

1. Jackson, S. (2022). The patchwork of world history in Texas high schools: Unpacking Eurocentrism, imperialism, and nationalism in the curriculum, 1920-2021. Taylor & Francis.
2. The book Dan mentioned was: The Decolonization Of Africa by David Birmingham
3. Episode 40: The Social Studies Wars with Ron Evans
4. Time’s Monster pros/cons book.
   1. Here is the book website: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248373 
   2. She wrote a  shorter, tl;dr version for Slate here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/pros-cons-british-empire-balance-sheet-history-imperialism.html 
5. South Dakota curriculum controversies (if you want):
   1. Here is an article I wrote about this for World History Connected: https://doi.org/10.13021/whc.v20i1.3527 
   2. And for Perspectives on History: https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/january-2023/standards-of-revision-partisan-politics-comes-to-south-dakotas-schools 

Biography
Stephen Jackson is an incoming Assistant Professor of the Historical, Social, and Cultural Foundations of Education in the University of Kansas Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department. His work focuses on the history of education within the British Empire, particularly on issues of religion, decolonization, and national identity. He has written two books on these topics, Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms (Palgrave, 2018), and Religious Education and the Anglo World (Brill, 2020). More recently, he began exploring how imperialism and Eurocentrism persist in U.S. educational settings. This has resulted in his third book, The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools (Routledge, 2022). He can be reached by email at sjj@gwmail.gwu.edu, and can be found tweeting (sporadically) @stomperjax.