Americans wear red poppy flowers on Memorial Day to honor the service members who lost their lives protecting our country.

Schools often neglect history, and students think it's boring. But it's important, and a new framework for teaching it can make it come alive. History teachers generally get inadequate training and ...

One of the most exciting elements of historical research is getting to dive into primary sources like letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, and debates. In all of our lower-division classes, you will ...

Suggested Citation: "Part I HISTORY - 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History." National Research Council. 2005. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the ...

These fascinating sites share important and often overlooked stories about people who shaped U.S. history and culture. National parks preserve the legacies of visionaries such as Martin Luther King Jr ...

There are a lot of games out there, and you can learn a lot of things from them. Quick-thinking, storytelling methods, how to work out probability, tactics and strategy, and maybe even empathy if you ...

This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. History is for students curious about the world. It involves ...

Taylor Cassidy made her way into viewers’ minds (and Time’s 100 Creators list) with her TikTok series Fast Black History, in which she showcases a variety of Black historical figures and their ...

For the most part, educators say, K-12 students who do learn about black history are hearing about the same few historical figures over and over: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and ...

Each week on Twitch and Alpha, hosts Erika Ishii and Trisha Hershberger talk video games with special industry guests, insightful coverage and a ton of audience interaction on our show Game Engine. Be ...

Children at play outside or with unfamiliar materials look as though they might be answering such questions as: What does this do? How does this work? What does this feel like? What can I do with it?