Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

The Declaration of Independence set forth inspiring ideals of liberty. If your kid had the chance today, would she sign the Declaration?

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.