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What pushes and pulls people into new ways of life? In this lesson, students use artifacts, documents, and photographs to help them answer this question. [...] »
Teach students how to use physical evidence to interpret history with this creative lesson plan. [...] »
Introduce students to the importance of oral history while simultaneously teaching them about 20th-century labor unions. [...] »
Even the recent past was very different from the present. Students analyze photos from the 1960s and 1970s to identify differences between then and now. [...] »
History is imbedded in the smallest objects. In this lesson, students examine how a simple farming tool connects to the work done by United Farm Workers. [...] »
Students examine primary sources related to the life of an immigrant girl and her family to discover what life might have been like at the turn of the century. [...] »
In this lesson, students will organize photographs both chronologically and conceptually in order to construct a narrative of the Holocaust. [...] »
Through the lens of documents concerning the Iran-Contra Affair, this lesson enables students to examine how audience and purpose affect a document’s contents. [...] »
In this lesson, students explore the multiple stories behind the creation of the cotton gin. [...] »
