Those who would ban or burn books recognize that the threat to their power comes when people learn to think for themselves.

Social studies teachers can gain valuable insight from Kathleen Wellman’s book about U.S. and world history textbooks created by conservative Christian publishing houses.

The Haitian Revolution was the largest and most successful slave revolt in the world. Why is it rarely discussed or taught in U.S. classrooms?   

Teaching students about the history and patterns of authoritarianism can help bolster our own collective awareness of the vulnerability of democracy.

The two featured portraits of Revolutionary-era writer John Dickinson next to a book titled “Magna Charta,” can launch an enlightening lesson on the thirteenth-century charter´s influence on America´s founding documents.

The three approaches to teaching about the legacies of nuclear development outlined in this article can advance students’ critical literacy skills as they analyze artifacts of popular culture.

The selected websites provide lesson plans and student activities for teaching about this year’s 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I. The Surfing the Net column also appears as a blog at connected.socialstudies.org/blogs

As the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta approaches, Lessons on the Law provides an overview of the “Great Charter” and identifies teaching materials to engage students.

Studying the Weimar Republic can help students make connections between the past and present and understand how history can inform our choices today.

A new set of inquiries based on the C3 Framework provides questions, tasks, and sources to launch classroom examinations of the Korean War and its many aftershocks.