Pre-service teachers in a social studies methods course designed to address issues of inequity and privilege, engaged elementary students in a ten-week inquiry project. Based on this project, this article shares insights about the processes involved in enacting justice-focused pedagogy.

Michael J. Berson and Bárbara C. CruzFor teachers who want to explore the rich history of Jewish involvement in the country’s social fabric, development, and politics, this article provides significant online and print resources.143

The realities of COVID-19 have clearly revealed the myth of the model minority, a stereotype in which Asian Americans are seen as successful and high achieving in contrast to other Communities of Color. An ever-present, but sometimes seemingly dormant, anti- Asian racism in the United States is reflective of patterns in U.S. immigration history. Yet, neither is often taught in PK-12 education. In this article, the authors briefly outline the history of two major policies in Asian American immigration history and share an inquiry designed to help students explore the institutionalized racism…

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This review of the Presidential Timeline and 12 existing presidential library websites will help teachers and students to focus on the presidency.

Examining selected digital historical records can highlight for students how their emphases, distortions, or omissions can influence perceptions of events.

—Francie Keller Shafer, Louise Stearns, and Joe KalloThis creative project, involving three traveling Beanie Baby dogs, helps students refine geographical mapping skills as they record their dog’s travel across the state. 203

An oral history project by students in Southside, Virginia, exposes a neglected aspect of the civil rights movement—a generation of young people who were deprived of an education by segregationists.