In the featured lesson, students explore the ways that individuals, groups, communities, and nations define who belongs and who does not.

An excerpt from civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis’s memoir about his childhood in Alabama launches a classroom lesson about civic power through solidarity and persistence.

Digital sources like Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl can involve students in a deep investigation of the long-term history and personal impacts of slavery in the United States.

Studying the repression of women in Iran can launch the deeper exploration of pathways to freedom.

Examining the surge of anti-Asian violence in the wake of COVID-19 can lead to an important lesson on patterns of racializing disease and the scapegoating of marginalized groups. 

The recent uproar over a Colorado school board’s efforts to infuse the AP U.S. History framework with ideologically motivated revisions highlights the importance of keeping inquiry as the focus of the history classroom.

Analyzing propaganda posters from World War I in the classroom enables students to advance their historical knowledge and gain critical media decoding skills.

Avner SegallWhile it is common to separate knowledge of teaching and knowledge of content, the author explores whether they can or should be considered distinct from each other. 484