The featured document from FDR's speech inaugurating the Triborough Bridge provides an entry point for the study of New Deal programs and discussion of the government's role in planning, funding, and creating infrastructure.

The 2014 and 2015 Carter G. Woodson Award winners include books about a Charleston jazz band of African American orphans; a Navy disaster that exposed the injustices of military segregation; and Sylvia Mendez and Barbara Johns, who waged desegregation battles on separate coasts.

The story of an Indonesian macaque who snapped selfies with a photographer's camera can serve as a jumping off point into an engaging lesson on intellectual property and the concept of copyright.

Elementary students learn to distinguish between a need and a want and contemplate how their decisions as consumers affect other children.

A brief film created by the Census Bureau to encourage participation in the 1940 Census will enrich a lesson on the Constitution and fuel discussion on why the Framers saw fit to require a population count.

A personal letter from President Eisenhower to his older brother brings to light a number of issues ripe for classroom exploration ranging from Eisenhower's views on the Constitution to U.S. actions in 1953 aimed at securing access to Iranian oil.

Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education

Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education