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.
Adapting sources for classroom use allows teachers to steer students toward authentic historical inquiry and away from a version of history determined exclusively by the textbook.
Educators will find the websites highlighted in this column useful for teaching about the history of government and government systems around the world.
Students learn how local history has coincided with national events and trends when they create scrapbooks to document the history of their high school.
Creating biography webs helps young learners recognize how people, economic conditions, and significant events shaped the personal development of historic individuals.
The Dutch contribution to America's economic system and cultural fabric was highly significant, yet history textbooks barely mention their early seventeenth-century influence on America.