Enabling students to pose and answer their own questions helps them evolve from passive learners to students who are actively engaged in their coursework.

Creating classroom book clubs with e-readers helps connect adolescent interests, digital literacies, and content area academic goals.

This article highlights effective films for teaching world history and suggests related classroom activities.

The featured photographs, in conjunction with a New Deal-era report about Puerto Rico, can inspire a provocative classroom debate about the use of terminology, historical vocabulary, and the meaning of “progress.”

Investigating the iconic photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima in light of recent corrections to the roster of Marines pictured can spotlight for students the dynamic nature of historical interpretation.

Implementing 25-minute instructional blocks when teaching online can help learners develop stronger inquiry skills and prevent the zombie-like effects of staring nonstop at a screen.

Walt Whitman’s featured letter on the conditions at a Union army camp when he went in search of his wounded brother can serve as an engaging launch point for a classroom lesson on the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Civil War.

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

This year's winners spotlight experiences of sharecroppers, migrant workers, and the civil rights movement.