Looking at the role associations played in the lives of key figures like Rosa Parks or Theodore Roosevelt can serve as a jumping off point into a valuable class discussion on the role such groups have played in spurring social change.

The findings of the authors’ research study demonstrate ways that social studies teachers can address the classroom needs of multilingual students with digital primary sources.

The featured letter from a San Francisco couple seeking to help earthquake victims in Italy can serve as a jumping off point into the study of natural disasters and emergency relief efforts.

The four highlighted newspaper items can launch an engaging study of media influence and election campaigns in the shifting political landscape of 1912.

This list of noteworthy websites can be used to teach students about election issues and how to fact check campaign rhetoric, as well as the Electoral College and voting procedures.

The constraints created by NCLB and under-performing textbooks mean that teachers have to devise new ways to advance education for democracy.

While Hollywood has finally caught up with the times in regards to portraying the histories of LGBTQ individuals, the social studies curriculum is still lagging.

A close look at Rosa Parks's handwritten notations on the program from a Montgomery bus boycott event can engage students into a deeper study of Parks, the boycott, and the civil rights movement.