DIG’s leading researchers are the same team that established and directed the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) since its founding in 2002, including SHEG founder Sam Wineburg, the Stanford University Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History, Emeritus, and DIG’s co-founder and executive director Joel Breakstone, who led SHEG for 10 years.

To ensure our long-term sustainability, DIG spun out of Stanford in January 2024 and became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In partnership with Stanford, we brokered a licensing agreement that allows us to distribute the materials we created at the university at no cost.

We rely on contributions from individuals and organizations who believe that a healthy democracy requires the cultivation of critical thinkers. Help DIG develop new curriculum, conduct cutting-edge research, and support tens of thousands of teachers and students with evidence-based, classroom-ready resources. If you’d like to support our work, you can do so here.

Absolutely! We continue to develop new Reading Like a Historian lessons and Beyond the Bubble history assessments, and we offer social studies teachers a range of professional development opportunities. DIG is committed to both history education and digital literacy.

Our Reading Like a Historian and Civic Online Reasoning materials were originally designed for middle and high school students, but we have begun to develop lessons for grades K-5. We have also expanded our work to universities and widened our efforts with materials for adult learners.

Rigorous research is at the heart of our mission. This article in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor features an overview of our research efforts.

You can reach us at info@inquirygroup.org.