MLK Day Teaching Resources
Humanitarian law and history are hardly mutually exclusive. [...] »
How do factors such as race and ethnicity shape young peoples’ perspectives the history of race relations? [...] »
Learn more about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [...] »
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Celebrate this holiday as a day of public service. [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a high school student uses two related primary sources to understand the civil rights movement. [...] »
If students lack historical context, they can miss the substance of a reading. Watch a high school sophomore use what he knows about the 1950s and 1960s to approach a diary extract. [...] »
A day of service, commemoration, and evaluation. [...] »
How do children in different countries learn history? Is the role of narrative the same internationally? [...] »
Can students learn history through themes that don’t fit the usual approach to teaching U.S. history? [...] »
The textbook is examined as one source among many, rather than a final authority. [...] »
