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Teaching with Textbooks

Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, perspective, and bias. [...] »

I have used this activity with Native Americans and slavery with great success. I have worked over the years to collect a variety of old textbooks from different time periods.

—Anonymous

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Pre-1865

An American Family: The Beecher Tradition

Picture of the Beecher family c.1850. Taken by Mathew Brady, New York.

Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe's family was also involved in [...] »

Declaration of Independence: Rough Draft to Proclamation

Lithograph, "The Declaration Committee," 1876, Currier and Ives

How did the final version of the Declaration differ from Jefferson's draft? [...] »

Post-1865

Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems

Photo, Angel Island, San Francisco, CA, July 26, 2008, elcapitan79, Flickr

Learn about the experiences of immigrants detained at Angel Island and how this [...] »

Teaching the Transcontinental Railroad

Photo, Promontory P.7, May 10, 1869, Utah State Historical Society

From Chinese immigrants to the Golden Spike, explore the history of the [...] »

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Historical Thinking & Literacy

What Is an "Inquiry Lesson"?

Photo, Abraham Walkowitz. . . , 1908, Carl Schulman, Flickr Commons

Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of the [...] »

Using Technology

WhatWasThere

Put the past next to the present with this photo-sharing and mapping tool. [...] »

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