‘Too Easily Forgotten’: Seminar Encourages Scholars to Teach About Evils of Communism

Texas Hosts Seminar Exposing Communism’s Deadly Legacy

The University of Texas at Austin will host a two‑day seminar this October, titled “Teaching the Twentieth Century: Communism and Dissent,” with the goal of equipping professors across disciplines to teach the brutal legacy of communism. Organized by UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the event aims to ensure that the ideology’s catastrophic toll is not ignored in modern curriculums. Communis…

Seminar at U Texas-Austin Will Encourage Scholars to Teach About Evils of Communism

“Much needs to be done to empower educators to tell an accurate history of the crimes and destruction wrought by communist revolutionaries and governments.”

‘Too easily forgotten’: Seminar encourages scholars to teach about evils of communism

‘The temptations to evil need to be understood in order to be avoided,’ UT Austin professor says The University of Texas at Austin will host a two-day seminar on communism to encourage professors to host their own classes on the subject and ensure that, as one professor put it, the “destructive” ideology is not “easily forgotten.” “Too often, courses on communism focus on theory at the expense… Source