The featured document from a parade to celebrate the Constitution can serve as an engaging entry point into a lesson about the founding document and the campaign for ratification in 1788.

A famous exchange with Benjamin Franklin recorded at the Constitutional Convention will challenge students to consider the significance of the decision to establish a republic.

—Lyn ReeseChinese and Japanese female scholars are increasingly uncovering information on the history of women in their countries. A few selective themes can help teachers manage the vast and emerging new scholarship.44

Beverly Milner Bisland and Iftikhar Ahmad

By examining the evolving rights and procedures of the Boston Massacre trials students will understand the importance of “judicial precedent” in early American legal and political experience.