We must continue to ensure that our students understand their civic engagement is essential to safeguarding our freedoms.

Wynell Schamel Teachers can use this compelling collection of letters from needy children during the Great Depression to explore relevant issues such as the image of the United States as a land of opportunity, the role of government in the lives of citizens, and the importance of dissent in a democracy.

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The story of Henry Glintenkamp, indicted during World War I for an anti-draft political cartoon, offers an excellent starting point for a discussion of free speech restrictions and the Espionage Act.

—David J. SmithStudents walk a figurative mile in the world’s shoes, when they carry water from a lake to better understand how factors like access to water can affect a community’s health313

A new set of inquiries based on the C3 Framework provides questions, tasks, and sources to launch classroom examinations of the Korean War and its many aftershocks.