Teaching high school history with picture books can enliven social studies content, advance students’ higher-order thinking skills, and help facilitate differentiated instruction.

Picture books often address complex topics and can provide a visually arresting approach for teaching secondary as well as special needs students.

This set of books offers insight into Canadian aboriginal cultures and the contributions of these groups to the fabric of the nation.

The 2013 Carter G. Woodson Award winners include books about Booker T. Washington's 500-mile trek to college, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights campaigns, Solomon Northup's kidnapping into slavery from his birthplace in New York.

The 2012 Carter G. Woodson Award winners include books about Native American resistance to assimilation, race relations during World War II, and composer Leonard Bernstein's struggle against anti-Semitism. Center Pullout Section (This file is available for members in the Notable section of the publication archive.) 7703/notable2013.pdf

Teaching about Latin America through prose, poetry, and picture books helps bring a human dimension to the study of the region.

For nearly 50 years, the National Council for the Social Studies has presented the Carter G. Woodson Book Award to texts that accurately and sensitively depict the experience of one or more historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups in the United States. The award originated in 1974, named to honor distinguished scholar Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, the Harvard-trained historian whose scholarship and dedication to making Black History known and visible led to the eventual creation of Black History Month. Texts must be non-fiction, published and set in the United States, written for…

The 2009 award winners include books about a pioneer of Native American rights, the challenges faced by migrant families, the Jim Crow era, and the involvement of children in the civil rights movement.

These first-edition books were written by members of NCSS. Please send notification of your recent new book to tssp@ncss.org, and we'll share it here, in the order received. Congratulations to these authors! ** *********************** ** Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker. The Global Education Movement: Narratives of Distinguished Global Scholars. Information Age Publishing, 2018. Paperback $39.09; Hardcover $73.09; eBook price varies. The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in…

This ninth-grade inquiry invites students to analyze arguments about banning certain books while also asking them to consider what makes a book worth reading.