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How to identify the author, audience, date, and message of historical [...] »
Students learn about John F. Kennedy and his ideas about service as a prompt [...] »
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Build your students' language skills and historical understanding by using [...] »
Explore resources on the Bracero guest worker program from the mid-20th [...] »
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Documents are riddled with difficult vocabulary. Don't be afraid to adapt [...] »
Construct an ongoing, shared classroom timeline in middle and elementary [...] »
Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of [...] »
Engage your students in preserving local history! Use this teacher's [...] »
Classroom discussions need not be argumentative and unproductive. Discover a [...] »
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