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Teaching with Textbooks
Lessons in which students compare secondary sources are a challenge for me to set up. This entry about comparing textbook accounts helped a lot!
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9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Africans in America 
Trace the history of Africans in America through Reconstruction, with 245[...] »
Bill of Rights 
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was[...] »
Post-1865
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film 
Do films capture your students' attention? Introduce them to Roosevelt in[...] »
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Sourcing a Primary Document
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes[...] »
