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

This year’s winners for outstanding nonfiction that focus on ethnic minorities and race relations include books on early civil rights reformers, a Japanese American family in an internment camp, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, migrant leader César Chavez, Lewis and Clark guide Sacagawea, and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Pull Out Section http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/

This year’s award-winning Carter G. Woodson books present stories about an African American World War II soldier and artist, a Mexican American community’s fight against segregation, and a book about the wrongfully accused Scottsboro boys.

The 2010 award winners include books about a teenage civil rights pioneer, a Native American leader, and the immigrant experience in America.

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

The National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council are pleased to present this year’s selection of outstanding books for teaching primary, intermediate, and high school social studies.

The 2014 and 2015 Carter G. Woodson Award winners include books about a Charleston jazz band of African American orphans; a Navy disaster that exposed the injustices of military segregation; and Sylvia Mendez and Barbara Johns, who waged desegregation battles on separate coasts.

Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol by Michael G. Long; illustrated by Carlos Vélez (Louisville, KY: Flyaway Books, 2021) This picture book history of the peace symbol can help expand elementary students’ understanding of peace and introduce them to historical peace movements.  

In this article, the authors highlight four children’s picture books that can be used to discuss gender diversity with young children in social studies.

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…