Beverly Milner Bisland and Iftikhar Ahmad

Just three years since it broke away from Sudan, the new country of South Sudan is embroiled in a violent civil war. This article examines what went wrong and explores the challenges of building a new nation.

This year’s award winners include books that spotlight African American trailblazers (Sojourner Truth), barrier breakers (the all-black Attucks high school basketball team), and a book created in collaboration with contemporary teenage immigrants.

English classes seemed boring to the author's tenth-grade Ramallah students, until they decided to launch the first Palestinian online youth magazine.

Films and videos allow students to explore Latin American reality while prompting classroom discussions that deepen their understanding.

Aiming to correct myths about the Viet Nam War, this author regularly leads groups of students to learn about the country firsthand.