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Teachers are using the textbook—and going beyond it—to change history education from the ground up.

My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

Max just wants to keep everyone safe. So why is everyone upset with him?

TT answers your tough questions.

When it comes to making civil rights movements of the past accessible for young students, the connections to the present are right in front of us.

When her third-grade students hit a research obstacle, Syrita Jackson made the call—literally—to teach a point about perseverance.

In 1967 the Supreme Court ruling on Loving v. Virginia went a long way toward making marriage a right that more Americans could exercise. In Loving, the court decided that laws prohibiting African Americans and white Americans from marrying violated the Constitution. The Loving ruling said, among other things, “Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival.”

This professional development activity gives ideas for developing narrative empathy: using the power of story to step into another person’s shoes in the name of justice.