Telling Tales of History: The Florida Problem

Now & Then

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History, Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What can the controversy over Florida’s new Black history standards tell us about the politics of distorting the past? Heather and Joanne analyze the claims and framing of the standards and connect the curricular mandates to a century-old effort by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to control how Southern history was taught. How have Heather and Joanne sought to teach accurate American history in their own classes? They share more of their thoughts in a special “Backstage” segment of the podcast. Become a member of CAFE Insider and get access to Backstage episodes and other exclusive content. Head to cafe.com/history to learn more and join. For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/telling-tales-of-history-the-florida-problem/ Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	I'm Heather Cox Richardson.
0:53.0	And I'm Joanne Freeman.
0:55.0	Today we're going to talk about what's going on in Florida and the standards for teaching African-American history that are continuing to receive a lot of comment.
1:03.0	What Heather and I are interested in talking about here is not so much paging through the standards and correcting or not correcting various specifics,
1:13.0	but what we're interested in is the larger so-what.
1:17.0	Why doesn't matter?
1:19.0	What are these specific standards as they're set out now in Florida?
1:23.0	What are they suggesting overall and why does that matter?
1:27.0	Number one, and number two, how has this happened in the past?
1:31.0	And what can we learn from ways in which let's just call them strategic narratives about the past?
1:38.0	Have been used in teaching American history in our school systems.
1:44.0	And I would push that even further and say that ultimately this is a question about why history matters.
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