Lookout Point: Abolitionists Among the Founding Fathers Kevin Brady Runaway Slave Advertisements: Teaching from Primary Documents Tom Costa and Brooks Doyle Teaching About Immigration, Past and Present Susan Pass Facts about Our Immigrants

Civil War Drummer Boys: Integrating Music into Social StudiesJing A. Williams, Deborah Check Reeves, and Paige M. Wright Mission Impossible: Turning Essays on Enduring Issues into Respectful Ethical Debates Jennifer Ingold

In Pursuit of Equity: Book Banning and Censorship Book bans in schools and libraries are on the rise. Last school year, more than 850 individual titles were impacted by censorship efforts of local groups and state decision-makers. How can educators and students navigate censorship in their communities? NCHE and NCSS united for a fourth virtual Equity Summit in October 2023 in support of our history and social studies educators and students, with a focus on book-banning and censorship. These are the session recordings from the Summit. 

Venture Smith’s Autobiography and Runaway Ad: Enslavement in Early New York Alan J. Singer Classroom Debates Made Easy Kathleen M. Doyle King Coal: A Piece of Eastern Pennsylvania History Jill M. Beccaris and Christine Woyshner Coal: An Energy Source to be Reckoned With

Historical Letters: Integrating History and Language Arts Kay A. Chick ‘Tooning’ into History: Online Collections of Political Cartooons James M. Duran Weaving a Map: Making Global Connections Visible Teresa Secules and Rhodis Thompson Great Zeus! Creating Greek Myth Cards John Marshall Carter

Birmingham and the Human Costs of Industrialization: Using the C3 Framework to Explore the “Magic City” in the Gilded AgeJeremiah Clabough and John H. Bickford III The 1848 Women’s Rights Convention: Where was Frances Seward?Alan Singer

Quinn Rollins, Play Like a Pirate: Engage Students with Toys, Games, and Comics. San Diego, CA: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., 2016, Paperback, 164 pp., $24.95. Here’s an informal book review, excerpts from a blog posting  (www.ucss.blog.com), by NCSS member Kaye Rizzuto (who teaches  8th and 9th grade U.S. History as well as AP Human Geography at Elk Ridge Middle School in South Jordan, Utah: “Our own Quinn Rollins, former UCSS [Utah Council for the Social Studies] president, has recently published a book called Play Like a Pirate. I highly recommend the book. It has great ideas for…

Turn Out Those Lights! The Merchant Marine and U-Boat Lane, 1942 Caroline C. Sheffield and Andrew J. Nichols The Greensboro Sit-In: When Students Took Charge of Social Change Eric Groce, Tina Heafner, and Katie O’Connor Is This Candy an Advertisement for Cigarettes? A Media Literacy Activity Steven S. Lapham  

An Emancipation Document by Ulysses S. Grant Kenneth Anthony and Mary Katherine Morgan

Strategically designed word walls can help students build the vocabulary needed to ask and explore important questions in the social studies.