The results of the featured research study can help teachers become practiced communicators when presenting African American history to their students.

The Library of Congress’s Slave Narratives Collection present students with an opportunity to expand their understanding of slavery in America while grappling with questions about interpretations of the past.

The C3 Framework serves as an excellent guiding tool as students examine public issues and communicate their views to public officials.

The revised standards for the preparation of social studies teachers address the purposes of social studies education in a democratic society and the kinds of knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers need to accomplish these objectives.

Our new standards for the preparation of social studies teachers are a vital resource for teacher preparation and represent a deeper potential for the entire social studies profession.

Studying local history stimulates student interest and can provide an entrée into studying larger national narratives.

This inquiry, which explores the current debate on what should be done with Confederate monuments, engages students in historical, geographic and civic skills.

Students can learn a great deal about the economic, social, or strategic importance of a place when they examine maps, such as the featured 1910 Sanborn map of South San Francisco.

The featured primary source in support of Native American tribes who were victims of the Indian Removal Act in 1830 can be used to spark a classroom lesson on this disturbing period in American history.