Mark Twain (who emerged as a writer during the Civil War) said “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Some Americans anyway may learn geography from war, but not all. An American ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...