Social Education September 2008
Social Education September 2008
Volume:72
Num:5
Ensuring Access to the Ballot Box: Voting Rights in the United States
A close look at contemporary voting rights issuesvoter identification laws, English only laws, and felon disenfranchisementdemonstrates ways in which voting rights can be restricted by seemingly ordinary requirements.
Question: Who Can Vote?
Key historical events changed voting practices in America and extended the right to vote. This article spotlights a few of those events, as well as contemporary voting issues, and outlines a teacher-tested lesson on voting.
Habeas Corpus and Enemy Combatants
The writ of habeas corpus has been a critical tool for balancing the rights of individuals with the government's responsibility to protect the nation's welfare. The featured elementary, middle, and high school lessons explore the significance of this right.
Frederick Douglass Changed My Mind about the Constitution
Like Frederick Douglass, this historian had originally viewed the Constitution as pro-slavery. Yet a close look at Douglass's writings revealed a Constitution that empowered the federal government to abolish slavery.
Remapping Neural Circuits, Civics, and Presidential Libraries: Coincidences? You Be the Judge
This review of the Presidential Timeline and 12 existing presidential library websites will help teachers and students to focus on the presidency.
The Two World Histories
Despite the urgent need to improve the world history curriculum, disagreements on the subject have divided scholars, educators, and policymakers into different camps at cross purposes with each other.
Conducting Interviews to Learn about World War II
The two featured lesson plans offer student interviewers the opportunity to evaluate multiple perspectives, interpret information, and draw historical conclusions.
Fear, Panic, and Injustice: Executive Order 9066 A Lesson for Grades 4-6
In this lesson, students use primary sources to understand how a climate of fear influenced the president to sign the order that forced the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Rough Journal Page Documenting Ratification and Final Page of the Treaty of Paris, 1783
The featured documents highlight for students the significance of the Treaty of Paris, not only in ending the Revolutionary War, but also in transforming British North America.