Pursuing the Truth in History Education with Jasmine Holmes

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, we welcome guest Jasmine Holmes. Jasmine is an educator and an author and she sits down with Sharon to talk about the state of history education in America: what it looks like and what it should look like. Why has it become a central topic in our current culture wars and how can we prevent the exclusion of our full and complex history?

Thank you to our guest, Jasmine Holmes.

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Jasmine Holmes

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome.
0:06.3	So excited to have you here.
0:07.4	Today I'm chatting with educator, jazz and wholesome.
0:11.5	And we have such a fantastic conversation about history, education in the United States.
0:18.8	What it looks like for adults, what it looks like for adolescents and what it should look
0:23.3	like.
0:24.3	So join us in this conversation.
0:27.3	I can't wait to hear what you think.
0:29.6	Let's say that.
0:31.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:32.7	And here's where it gets interesting.
0:36.8	I am really excited to be chatting with history educator, jazz and wholesome.
0:40.1	Thank you so much for being here today.
0:41.8	Thank you so much for having me.
0:43.4	History, education is a hot topic in the United States.
0:47.0	Perhaps you have noticed.
0:48.3	It is.
0:48.9	I've gotten an inkling a whiff.
0:52.6	What we should be teaching our children is such a controversial subject.
0:58.5	It's the heart of the culture wars in the United States.
1:02.6	What is it that children are meant to be learning?
1:06.2	And both of our backgrounds is in secondary education.
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