Jewish Americans are a significant population in the United States, comprised of individuals from varied racial and ethnic backgrounds. According to the latest Pew research, “U.S. Jews do not have a single, uniform answer to what being Jewish means.

Last year, in 2023, California passed Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 58, officially recognizing April as Arab American Heritage Month. This resolution recognizes California’s role in Arab American history as the state with the largest Arab American population - numbering upwards of 700,000 people. Dr.

This month at CHSSP we are celebrating Women’s History Month by highlighting teaching resources, recent scholarship, and children’s books on the topics of women’s and gender history. The use of gender as a tool of analysis in historical research and writing was a radical outgrowth of the late twentieth-century field of women’s history. In the selections below we are honoring both women in history and women historians by recognizing how this critical intervention shaped the field.

At CHSSP this February we are honoring Black History Month, while also incorporating UC Davis’s recognition of February as Black Futures Month. Black Futures Month is defined as “a shared vision of the trajectory for Black life on the UC Davis campus & beyond.” This vision encompasses the sharing and learning of Black history while also acknowledging current context and continued liberation.

Happy New Year! This month, we are highlighting teaching resources, recent scholarship, and children’s books that honor the histories of work and organized labor in the United States and internationally. By teaching these histories through such resources as those included below, students are able to investigate and discover the many ways that work and labor shape their experiences of the world.

This month, we are highlighting teaching resources, recent scholarship, and children’s books that center the history of our home state, California. Although California history is explicitly taught in fourth grade, there are many opportunities to implement it in history-social science learning throughout K-12 education. Exploring the history of their state, cities, and communities can be both engaging and informative to students of all backgrounds and grade levels.

For the month of November, the California History-Social Science Project is highlighting Native American Heritage by featuring recent scholarship in Native American history and Native American Studies, existing teaching resources to support your lessons on Native American history, and with this new edition of Kate’s Book Club.

As we continue to highlight Latinx heritage this October and are looking forward to Dia de los Muertos on November 1, we are thinking about the many ways that family stories and celebrations continue to impact our students’ understanding of themselves and their histories. When people celebrate Dia de los Muertos, they engage in lived history by remembering family members who have passed on.

Today marks the start of Latina/o/x/é Heritage Month, which occurs each year from September 15th through October 15th.

This month, the California History-Social Science Project is hosting three Summer Institutes that focus on themes of justice, community, and civic engagement.