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Textbooks often represent history as a tidy story and students get little taste of the ongoing investigative nature of historical practice.

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Examples of Teaching

Foundations of U.S. History: John Brown Song

How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry?

Using Primary Sources

Antiques Roadshow Teacher's Guide

The creators of the Public Broadcasting Series (PBS), Antiques Roadshow developed this guide to integrating material culture into the classroom.

Examples of Historical Thinking

Seeing (and Engaging in) Historical Thinking: An Interactive Tutorial

This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.

Sourcing a Primary Document in Historical Thinking Matters

To see sourcing in action, watch how this historian begins to read a document about the Scopes Trial.

Teaching With Textbooks

Questioning Textbook Authority

Challenge the authority gap between students and the textbook.

Using Historiography to Analyze the Mexican-American War

Historiography allows students to see that history is about interpretation, perspective, and bias.

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