Collective Memory: How Do Memories of the Past Inform Our Future?

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

History is the study of past events in human affairs and part of our daily lives.

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.

Across the country and the world, people are rallying behind the Black Lives Matter movement to enact change in a system that has historically been unjust to people of color.

FEAR.

Contemporary literature gives readers a look at progressive writing styles that often reflect the world in which the works were written.

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.