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Challenge primary sources in their contemporary context. Ninth-grade students roleplay critics to analyze one of FDR's Fireside Chats. [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about VA and Brown v. Board of Education. [...] »
Watch high school students use primary sources to question their textbook's narrative on the 1968 My Lai massacre. [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore a community site. [...] »
A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor photographs. [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher gets to the big picture via a specific historical case. [...] »
This 8th-grade teacher shows how you can make primary and secondary source documents central to your lessons. [...] »
An 8th-grader teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or a "salad bowl"? [...] »
A 4th-grade teacher asks her class, how did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry? [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation. [...] »
