Browse Using Primary Sources - models of analysis
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of causes and evidence: direct and underlying causes, bias and impartiality, and testimony versus inferred evidence. [...] »
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students analyze artistic works. [...] »
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [...] »
Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. What do those in your area say, not just about the past but about the people who put them up? And how can they be interpreted today? [...] »
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your community? [...] »
Familiarizing yourself with the current events of the past. Understand the events and politics of colonial times, especially, through the press. [...] »
How did African-American women present their causes and themselves? [...] »
Legal documents tell us more than you might think about early American everyday life. [...] »
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence. [...] »
Don't overlook song as a way of understanding the past. [...] »
