The National September 11 Memorial and Museum provides educational resources that explore the ongoing impact of the September 11th attacks and the ways that volunteerism and art aid in healing, recovery, and rebuilding.

The study of the two featured documents will illustrate for students the importance of Congress’s power to investigate as part of a system of checks and balances established by the Founders.

A new National Archives partnership has made thousands of additional federal records available online free of charge.

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.

The highlighted primary sources and teaching activity offer a unique approach to teaching about the Civil War.

This simulation on OPEC can help students adapt complicated economic concepts to real-life situations in an effective and engaging way.

Investigating the court martial of African American sailors who refused to load munitions following a 1944 explosion can evolve into a valuable classroom lesson on confronting injustice.

Noteworthy graphic novels can facilitate differentiated instruction and engage students while they master content.

Rare or out-of-print children’s books such as the one featured in this article offer a unique glimpse into the early twentieth century and can be used to launch a lesson on urban culture in the Progressive Era.