Why Teaching Social Studies Matters for Our Future

Before the computer revolution, cut and paste required scissors and glue.

In our modern world, different groups are seeking to make changes in their society.

Collective memory, or social memory, is how a group of people remember and forget the past.

Social studies classrooms can often become a regurgitation of facts, events, and people throughout history.

In the summer of 1381, working people in England were enraged, and for two months they made their voices heard by forming armed groups, marching on several towns and London, destroying the property of hated government officials, and burning tax records.

Urban legends, referred to by folklorists as contemporary legends, are fictional stories claimed to be true.

Etymology, the study of the origin of words and how the meanings of words change over time, is just as relevant in social studies as it is in English classes.

Quacks love health crises, and the COVID-19 virus has become very lucrative for people who make claims about unscientific cures.

The United States has been involved in trade wars with nations around the world in recent years.