The video essay assignment described in this article challenges students to build stronger arguments and helps them develop a deeper understanding of the past.

Engaging students in inquiry with digital history helps advance their disciplinary literacy skills.

The devices, apps, and websites that are so intertwined in our students’ lives offer enriching opportunities for social studies inquiries into the ethics of technology.

This primer on the Fed’s current monetary policy framework can bring educators and students up-to-date on how the Fed uses monetary policy to steer the economy toward maximum employment and price stability.

The featured political cartoons can be used as jumping off points into a lesson on the progressive era and relevant economic terms such as trusts, monopolies, and titans of industry.

By examining the evolving rights and procedures of the Boston Massacre trials students will understand the importance of “judicial precedent” in early American legal and political experience.

The role that racial slavery played in the founding and development of our republic should be woven into the bedrock of how we teach American history and civics.

<p>We live in a time when the question of who is (or is not) depicted in public monuments is a topic of heated discussions across the nation. For example, the removal of Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulted in a violent protest in 2017. Such debates concerning the display and preservation of Civil War monuments center around concerns that Confederate monuments romanticize the pro-slavery South and fail to acknowledge the racial oppression that fueled the Civil War. But issues about Civil War monuments are part of a larger discussion about the effect of monuments…

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In this article, we discuss how virtual reality (VR) can be used to provide learning experiences across time and space. After a brief introduction to VR technology, we discuss how VR can be used as a part of College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) inquiry in your elementary classroom, including management, materials, instructional considerations, and lesson examples.