The Royall House and Slave Quarters presents an evening with historian Donald Yacovone, author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity.” In the book, Yacovone shows the clear evidence of white supremacy’s deep-seated roots in our nation’s educational system through an in-depth examination of America’s wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial era to today, the author reveals the systematic ways in which this ideology has infiltrated all aspects of American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity.

Yacovone is an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He will be joined in conversation by David J. Harris, emeritus managing director of the Houston Institute at Harvard Law School.

Admission is free, but advance registration is required through Eventbrite.