A high school history teacher describes her experience on a humanitarian mission in Ukraine and offers a lesson plan for teaching about the war and the experiences of refugees.

The featured photograph of Alexander Graham Bell and a related article about the first long distance phone call between New York and Chicago can launch a fascinating lesson on Bell's invention and its impact on history.  

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The only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture opens this month in Washington, D.C.

If high school history courses are meant to introduce students to the paradoxes and debates of American history, then they should study the 1619 Project. 

Guiding students to examine the historical perspectives of ordinary citizens like the schoolteacher who spurred New York City transit to desegregate, is a powerful way to demonstrate the impact that one individual can have.

For Black History Month, NCSS editors have curated this selection of articles and resources from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. 

Laura H. Darolia