The rigorous research projects that students undertake for National History Day teaches them to work like historians while developing skills needed to become active, engaged citizens.

Cyrisse JaffeeIt is hard to find the right resources for teaching about the Middle East, but a joint project by a Harvard University center and Boston’s PBS station will help.51

In this article, the author offers teaching resources and insights from a two-week unit taught with in an eighth grade U.S. history class that deconstructed the boundaries between public and private by investigating the evolution of American household labor and tools.

The featured document on federal aid for school lunches and the accompanying essay on the School Lunch Act provide students with a unique chance to study the role of government.

—M. Gail Hickey and Don L. KoltermanThe lesson plans highlighted in this article will help teachers bring women into the social studies curriculum by integrating family stories and community-based interviews.197

Tammara Purdin, Florida Council for History Education

Playwright Lillian Hellman's featured letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee as it investigated Hollywood during the Cold War can launch an interesting lesson on the protections of the Fifth Amendment.