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What do we mean by the “American Dream”? This educator has some ideas for meaningfully engaging students with this topic.

Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?

What 'Brown v. Board' meant to the United States.

You’re forgiven if you missed it. Late last month, Congress passed and President Obama signed a bill that included text that “apologizes … to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States.” Not only was news of the measure knocked from front pages by the health care debate and Tiger Woods, it was well-camouflaged within the 2010 defense appropriations bill.

A middle school teacher shares her innovative approach to using a bilingual multicultural resource.

A preview of a new online curriculum.

Through a grant from Teaching American History, I was part of a group of teachers who spent months reading, listening and watching films and videos about the civil rights movement before we took a trip to the South. But still it was history—far away, untouchable and remote. That was until the first day in Sumner, Miss.