Examples of Historical Thinking
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An Introduction to Historical Thinking and Reading
For an introduction to the ways that historians read and question sources to piece together our past, see this flash movie titled, Why Historical Thinking Matters.
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.
Seeing (and Engaging in) Historical Thinking: an Interactive Tutorial
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.
Close reading of a primary document
During this 72-second video, the student reads aloud a speech by former Louisiana Governor Huey Long.
Intertextual reading of two primary documents
This student think aloud shows a 99-second video of a student reading a Social Security poster and congressional testimony by a NAACP representative.