The 2013 Carter G. Woodson Award winners include books about Booker T. Washington's 500-mile trek to college, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights campaigns, Solomon Northup's kidnapping into slavery from his birthplace in New York.

As students use geospatial technology to discover streets named for Martin Luther King, Jr., they learn about politics and social power as well as geography.

Students learn how to address community issues and the role of governments when they partner with classes from other countries through an online civic education problem-solving model.

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Exploring westward expansion and the Cherokee Trail of Tears with primary sources from multiple perspectives enables students to develop a more nuanced understanding about the concept of Manifest Destiny.

In this lesson, students investigate corporate and consumer behavior by collecting Starbucks artifacts, creating their own survey, and examining an ethnographic study.

Studying the everyday things we buy can teach us about who we are, what we care about, and the companies that cater to those desires.

Students learn about their own roles as consumers and about mass advertising through an in-depth study of a company that is ubiquitous in their lives.

The featured document and painting about the then-Prince of Wales's visit to Mount Vernon serve as excellent primary sources for a lesson on American diplomatic history.

Educators and policymakers need to recognize that social studies is a core subject, critical to sustaining an informed democracy and a globally competitive workforce.