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Elizabeth Schaefer on Facebook in the Classroom

8th-grade teacher Elizabeth Schaefer tackles the challenge of using Facebook [...] »

Anthony Pellegrino on Teaching Segregated History

Anthony Pellegrino explores the history of one segregated school, and [...] »

Ron Gorr on Socratic Seminars with Primary Documents

Anchor Socratic seminars in primary sources and watch your students work [...] »

Michael Yell on a Strategy for the Use of Textbooks in the History Classroom

Students aren't always working with primary sources. Seventh-grade history [...] »

Joe Jelen's Ads as Primary Sources: The Ad Council's Historic Campaigns

Advertisements don't always use ideas to sell products—sometimes they use [...] »

Anthony Pellegrino's Teaching with Class in Mind

How can you make history relevant to your students? Social studies/history [...] »

Amy Trenkle on National History Day—It's More than Just a Day…and It's More than Just History

National History Day's categories encourage students to develop 21st-century [...] »

Cintia Cabib's Interdisciplinary Gardening

Walk through the history of student gardening with documentarian Cintia [...] »

Film Review: Titanic

Are historical films like James Cameron's Titanic most useful as [...] »

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2011

Scratch the surface of Asian Pacific American history this May, and keep [...] »