Supreme Court biographies can offer students new perspectives on American history and politics. In this column, the author interviews biographers of three renowned justices.

The featured websites provide a glimpse of the countless resourcessuch as textbooks, trade books, maps, supplementary materials, and audio-visual materialsavailable in the NCSS conference exhibit hall.

In this multi-day investigation of teenage homelessness during the Great Depression, students use a range of technologiessearch engines, blogs, and podcasting toolsto investigate the political, economic, and social history of the time.

This unique Web 2.0 tool enhances students' literacy and inquiry skills as they critically engage with art.

A new digital library chronicles the integration of all-white public schools in Virginia and offers students the opportunity to read related oral histories, editorial arguments, and legal decisions.

Communicating in an online forum advances student reasoning and decision making while enabling teachers to interact more effectively with students and the curriculum.

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