Culturally responsive instruction that builds on students? home and community experiences can improve academic achievement and increase chances for success.

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.

Angela Breidenstein, Richard Butler, and Nipoli Kamdar Americans believe that economic literacy is an essential component of a good education. In the most recent Standards in Economics Survey of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), 96 percent of U.S. adults surveyed stated that basic economics should be taught in high school.1 There are good reasons for this conviction. Economics is, as Alfred Marshall once said, “the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” In our personal lives, and in our roles as citizens, we encounter numerous situations in which we need a…

The author offers an in-depth review and analysis of two prominent African American history textbooks and offers guiding questions for teachers selecting textbooks to use in class.

Some memorable days in our nation's history are declared holidays, while others are considered days of remembrance. This article explores the process of establishing a holiday to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.

The featured correspondence between George Washington and Major General Henry Knox can launch an engaging lesson on the Constitutional Convention and spur student research into Washington’s extensive papers.

When students are challenged by National History Day to probe into history?s unanswered questions, they sometimes become the first to provide the answers.