Children's Literature
In the recommendations below, we've prioritized #OwnVoices and independent presses. For more on what informs how we vet children's books, check out these articles: Much Bigger Than A Hamburger: Disrupting Problematic Picturebook Depictions of the Civil Rights Movement (Rodríguez & Vickery, 2020) and In Search of Mirrors: An Asian Critical Race Theory Content Analysis of Asian American Picture Books from 2007 to 2017 (Rodríguez & Kim, 2018). Also, check out orgs/blogs like We Need Diverse Books, Debbie Reese's American Indians in Children's Literature, Hijabi Librarians, Kid Lit Collective, Laura Jimenez' Book Toss, De Colores, Latinos in Kids' Lit, The Brown Bookshelf, Disability in Kids' Lit, YA Pride, and Reading While White.
Civil Rights Movement
‘63 Boycott Six-Lesson Curriculum from YURI Project, Kartemquin Films, & Mikva Challenge … This curriculum pairs with the documentary short, '63…
Communities
Borders by Sajany Jinny Menon and Muna Saleh for D. G. Krutka, A. M. Whitlock, & M. Helmsing (Eds.) Keywords in the Social Studies: Concepts and…
Community Helpers
Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell … This book explores issues related to police reform through a commitment to create and support different…
Families
The Adoption History Project by Ellen Herman … This website introduces the history of child adoption in the United States by profiling people…
Founding Fathers
Constitution Role Play: Whose “More Perfect Union”? and The Constitutional Convention: Who Really Won? by Bill Bigelow for the Zinn Education Project…
Holidays
Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance from Facing History Facing Ourselves … Using the history of antisemitism to start dialogue with students…
Immigration
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee … The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is…
Rules
A People’s History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons … A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this book is the…
Slavery
The 1619 Project Podcast from from The New York Times Magazine The 1619 Project … This ongoing initiative that began in August 2019, the 400th…
Suffragists
The 19th Amendment Didn’t Give Women the Right to Vote by Anna North for VOX … This article explains how, after the ratification of the 19th…
Westward Expansion
Affirming Indigenous Sovereignty: A Civics Inquiry by Sarah B. Shear, Leilani Sabzalian, & Lisa Brown Buchanan for Social Studies & the Young…