The memoir of a white journalist who disguised himself as an African American in the pre-civil rights South provides students with greater insight into the evolution of segregation in American society.

When teachers incorporate writing regularly in the social studies classroom, students not only become better prepared for reading and writing assessments, but gain a deeper comprehension of social studies content.

The two featured documents can serve as a starting point for a lesson on public service while students debate the amount of pay that public servants should receive.

By enhancing our professional organization and stepping up our advocacy, we can place social studies firmly in the foreground.

This list of recommended websites highlights the innovative use of Web 2.0 technology by teachers in Milwaukee and Kentucky, and a Houston professor who teaches students how to design podcasts that use animation, music, and narration.

Students can use GIS applications to analyze a range of geographic patterns. In the lesson described here, ninth graders used ArcGIS Explorer to study economic development and the ways in which countries are classified as more, or less, developed.

Students become deeply immersed in stories and their related social studies content with Lit Trips, which enable the hands-on explorations of text, by incorporating digital mapping tools, videos, and photographs.

Three activities described here engage the creativity of at-risk students by incorporating mini-camcorders into the study of the American Revolution, Civil War, and Post-Reconstruction.

Students become engaged in doing history when they examine digitized primary sources about the Great Plague in fourteenth-century Europe and create images of their own historical interpretations.