High school juniors and seniors describe some of their enriching experiences in social studies, citizenship, and civic engagement activities since joining the Rho Kappa social studies honor society.

The featured lesson exploring early twentieth-century U.S. policies towards Chinese immigrants can serve as a jumping off point into a discussion of contemporary U.S. immigration issues.

This historical analysis and teaching activity offers teachers an approach for integrating human rights issues into the world history curriculum.

These recommended strategies and websites can help teachers protect and improve the role of social studies in the curriculum and mobilize public support for social studies and citizenship education.

Learning history and historical thinking can help students become better writers.

These newly designed assessments allow a quick evaluation of the quality of student thinking, and promote appropriate instructional action.

A recent Supreme Court case looking at whether a drug dog's sniff gives police officers the right to get a search warrant, provides an excellent entry point into a lesson on the Fourth Amendment.

The featured documents relating to the Emancipation Proclamation illustrate how President Lincoln's government spread the news worldwide.

The film Lincoln spotlights Abraham Lincoln's character and leadership and raises questions about the legislative process that enabled politicians to pass the Thirteenth Amendment that abolished slavery.