Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future — Education as Power
The struggle over historical education is also a struggle over the political future citizens are capable of imagining.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley as an entry point, this investigation examines how authoritarian and fascist movements use education to control historical memory, reinforce hierarchy, and establish a single legitimizing account of national identity.
Stanley argues that democratic history must remain open to multiple perspectives, new…
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