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

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!

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".

Turn your child's learning about ancient civilizations into a swashbuckling adventure by having her make an ancient treasure map!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

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.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!