Browse Examples of Historical Thinking
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts records. [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass produced dreams of affluence and progress. [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah Glaser looks at a letter from Jefferson requesting funding for the Corps of Discovery. [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial identity. [...] »
Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food. [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents. [...] »
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a speech by former Louisiana Governor Huey Long. [...] »
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources. [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes Trial. [...] »
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](http://teachinghistory.org/system/files/imagecache/thumbnail/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question sources. [...] »
