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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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