Hard Times in the USA The Great Depression “Maybe You Could Help?” Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Mary Mason Royal Will the Senate Confirm “Karl B. Fennin”? William E. Amburn Ben Franklin’s Evolving View on Race and Ethnicity Steven S. Lapham and Drew Saunders The Game of History: A Creative Review Activity Christine Bell Your Move! History Board Games

Wireless Fever! Gay Parents Do Exist:Letting the Rabbit Out of the Hat Debra Chasnoff Radio Days in the Classroom Dan Schuchat Design a Book: A Quest in Ancient Egypt David Cooper Bandwidth Problems ca. 1912: The Need for Federal Regulation

Philip Reid and the Statue of Freedom Eugene Walton Casting Freedom, 1860-1862 Restoring Freedom, 1993 An Abolitionist Cartoon, 1830

American Revolution:Three Lesson Plans for Critical Thinking Stephanie Wasta Working to Improve Our Community: Students as Citizens and Town Planners Ted Mitchell Poems for Two Voices: An Interdisciplinary Activity Leslie Perfect Ricklin The Back Page: “Skin the Snake” A Colonial Children's Game

Linking Civics and Current Events Melissa J. Marks Leaders of Recent Nonviolent Revolutions Melissa N. Matusevich The Back Page: “Friend or Foe” Game

Dramatic Narratives: Capturing the Human Side of World War II Anita Perna Bohn and Penny Britton Kolloff Ernie Pyle:The Foot Soldier’s Reporter Sandra B. Oldendorf Teenage Witnesses to the Holocaust (Book Review) Tom Kolbe The Back Page: Censorship in Times of War