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Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of Education. [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's narrative on the My Lai massacre. [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore a community site. [...] »
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor photographs. [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher gets to the big picture via a specific historical case. [...] »
This 8th-grade teacher shows how you can make primary and secondary source documents central to your lessons. [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or a "salad bowl"? [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry? [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation. [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the internment of Japanese Americans while improving their reading skills. [...] »
