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“The Effort to Use State Power to Restrict What Teachers Can Say and Do in the Classroom Is Unprecedented.”

August 21, 2023
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“The Effort to Use State Power to Restrict What Teachers Can Say and Do in the Classroom Is Unprecedented.”

The Right’s culture war on schools, universities, and history teachers—thinly disguised as a crusade against straw men like “divisive concepts” and “critical race theory”—is showing no sign of letting up. According to a tracking project at the UCLA Law School, between September 2020 and July 2023, “a total of 214 local, state, and federal...
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ALBA Authors Curricular Guide for Students and Teachers in Spain

February 17, 2023
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ALBA Authors Curricular Guide for Students and Teachers in Spain

ALBA is proud to partner with the Spanish government in the publication of a 60-page curricular guide for high-school students and teachers in Spain as part of a government-sponsored series. Highlighting the experiences of U.S. volunteers in the International Brigades, the guide invites readers to use these stories as an inspiration to set...
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Celebrating the 2022 Watt Prize Winners

February 17, 2023
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Celebrating the 2022 Watt Prize Winners

Six students were recognized in this year’s George Watt Prize for their outstanding essays on the Spanish Civil War. The committee read through dozens of wonderful submissions from across the United States and Western Europe in what was, once again, a reminder of how many students appear interested in the Spanish Civil War.
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The Working-Class Legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

February 17, 2023
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The Working-Class Legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

After attending an ALBA workshop, Charlie Christ joined ALBA as an intern to work with Chris Brooks on the biographical database. “The Lincolns were incredibly diverse, representing the full spectrum of the American and international community. Yet as I dove deeper into their lives, one trend in particular struck me—their indelible impact on the...
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Legacies of the Civil War and Francoism: Ethics in Journalism and the Classroom

February 17, 2023
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Legacies of the Civil War and Francoism: Ethics in Journalism and the Classroom

When Cora Cuenca, an ALBA workshop alumna, teaches journalism to undergraduates in Seville, she invites them to consider the Spanish Civil War in personal terms. The legacies of the war, she writes, continue to weigh on Spain: “Education is political. There are no gray areas when dealing with fascism.”
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New Online Workshop Offered in March: Teaching Human Rights

November 18, 2022
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New Online Workshop Offered in March: Teaching Human Rights

Continuing its successful model, ALBA is once again joining with the Massachusetts-based Collaborative for Educational Services to offer a five-week online teaching workshop on “The United States and World Fascism from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond—Teaching Human Rights Today.” Optional graduate credit is available. Sign up here  Registration Deadline: Feb. 23,...
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5-Week Institute for Teachers in March and April Successful

May 19, 2022
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5-Week Institute for Teachers in March and April Successful

In March and April, ALBA offered a five-week online workshop to close to 30 teachers from the United States and elsewhere, working with the Collaborative for Educational Services of Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Passes Genocide Education Law

May 19, 2022
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Massachusetts Passes Genocide Education Law

A new educational law in Massachusetts encourages teachers to teach about genocide—including cases in US history—the in the context of human rights. The connection with ALBA’s teaching institutes is clear.
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New 5-Week Online Teacher Workshop This Spring

February 10, 2022
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New 5-Week Online Teacher Workshop This Spring

In partnership with the Collaborative for Educational Services, ALBA will offer a new iteration of its successful five-week online workshop for K-12 teachers anywhere in the world. The course will meet weekly on Thursday evenings between March 10 and April 7. Registration deadline: February 24. For more details, go to www.collaborative.org/events-and-courses/america-and-world-fascism
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Teaching Francoism in Times of Covid: A College Professor Reports

November 6, 2021
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Teaching Francoism in Times of Covid: A College Professor Reports

How might instructors teach the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) to students who have little prior knowledge of the period? A participant in ALBA’s teaching workshops explains.
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