The featured lesson on nanotechnology encourages students to explore the role that science and technology play in our lives and to consider relevant social and ethical issues.

The release of the 1940 census can be used as a jumping off point into the study of personal, community, or state history in the post-Depression period.

In this sequel to ghost stories in previous issues of Social Education, Ben Bernanke has a dream that explores historic cases of hyperinflation as well as current inflation fears with two of the best-known economists in history.

This look at the contradictions between economic freedom and slavery provides a comprehensive view of the institution of slavery in world and American history.

The English East India Company provides an excellent case study for a lesson on the complex dynamics and consequences of intertwined business-government relations.

A close study of Tokugawa Japan and Industrial Revolution Britain will correct textbook depictions and reveal societies that had pro-growth government policies and significant economic freedom.

A historic look at China and its early technological advances offers an excellent opportunity to incorporate economic lessons into the study of world history.

The study of medieval guilds and their role in regulating trade provides opportunities for teaching key economic concepts in a historical context.

Studying the economic choices of the Roman Empire prior to its collapse can highlight for students the relationship between government failure and economic failure.

Students will gain a better understanding of the pre-modern world when they consider the role that new technologies and institutions played in the advances of modern societies.