After learning about a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, students in Kansas created a play for National History Day that is still being performed today, more than 10 years later.

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

High school students in Ohio combine study with experience as they unearth and clean artifacts in order to re-create the history of an early settlement of emancipated slaves.

March/April 2010 (Volume 74, Number 2)

The Texas State Board of Education's proposed history standards has once again alerted us to the dangers of having standards developed by political activists rather than scholars.

In her latest book, educational policymaker Diane Ravitch distances herself from key education ideas that she once helped promote.

This article describes a classroom-tested simulation for teaching the Berlin Wall and provides a list of relevant resources.