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Tom Thurston considers what an 1853 slave receipt reveals about antebellum society.
Use Frederick Douglass' autobiographies to deconstruct students' monolithic views of slavery and historical heroes.
One institution, two very different perspectives. Richard Follett contrasts documents on slavery.
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass produced dreams of affluence and progress.
Change your race? Change your name? A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial identity.
"Happiness is simple" promises a 2009 advertisement for Lay's potato chips. How did Lay's change potato chips from a luxury item to an everyday food linked with simplicity and joy?
A student demonstrates thinking aloud while reading two documents.
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a speech by former Louisiana Governor Huey Long.
This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing historical sources.
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes Trial.
