The case for historical literacy

In an age of misinformation, media literacy and historical literacy are increasingly intertwined.

A Civil War-era photograph captioned as the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. The image is actually of a studio photograph of Union troops taken in Philadelphia, probably in early 1864.

Media Literacy Week begins in the U.S. today, an appropriate time to revisit a piece on media literacy and historical literacy that I published a few years ago.

On the morning o…