Teaching Activities by James H. Landman

Secondary sources provide students valuable insight into historians' arguments, showing how they disagree, and how events of the present shape interpretation of the past.

Promising practices offer educators opportunities to confront the perspective of white settler colonialism that has permeated the study of the history of Indigenous peoples.

A Position Statement of the National Council for the Social Studies

—Maria Elena SardinasThe We the People program has taught countless students how to monitor and influence public policy. In Miami, students considered tax exemptions to spur economic growth, stronger driving license regulations for seniors, and a sales tax to fund public schools.412

A web-analysis tool known as a word cloud offers a creative approach to analyzing documents such as presidential speeches.

Even before the first U.S. death from the mysterious, new coronavirus, Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett and Dr. Barney Graham were in a race against the clock. In 2020, they were research team members at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The guiding principles outlined in this article are essential for teaching students to differentiate between misinformation and credible sources.