A Treasured Island: Human and Geographic Interaction on Cumberland Robert L. Stevens and Julia A. Celebi Teaching History as Perspective Taking: The Colonial Convention Mac Duis and Sandra S. Duis The Community as a Laboratory for Student Learning Joseph Ciaccio Coming of Age Ceremonies: A Mask Project Alan Singer, Laura Gurton, Aimee Horowitz, Stephanie Hunte, Paula Broomfield, and Joanne Thomas

Researching Our School’s History Amy Trenkle Our School as Living History Candyce Sweda A Trash-Free Lunch Experiment Alison Davis-Holland, Sue Annis, and Steven S. Lapham Bears in the Air Facing the Future

Philip Reid and the Statue of Freedom Eugene Walton Casting Freedom, 1860-1862 Restoring Freedom, 1993 An Abolitionist Cartoon, 1830

Learning the early history of U.S. government is often confusing for middle school students. In this article, the author describes the use of the book We the People and the President to give seventh-grade students a deeper understanding of government

Using Cartograms to Explore the Electoral College: Comparing 1908 with 2008 Peter William Moran, Kimberly Dawn Miller and Kurk Aegerter Maps, Representations of the Earth, and Biases Peter C. Cormas How Politicians Gerrymander Steven S. Lapham