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Teaching Materials

Teaching Guides

This guide explores the relationship between secrecy and the First Amendment [...] »

Ask a Master Teacher
Photo, Ice 049, March 23, 2010, wcn247, Flickr

Explore tips on challenging gifted high school students, including resources [...] »

History Content

Website Reviews
Image, A selection of published works, 1999, Digital Schomburg African...

Read the full text of 52 published works by black women writers from the [...] »

Website Reviews
Pamphlet, Angela Davis is Innocent, 1970, University of Washington

Explore campus protest ephemera and the youth movements of the 1960s and 70s [...] »

Best Practices

Using Primary Sources
Detail, The Thomas Jefferson Building homepage

What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »

Examples of Historical Thinking

Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »

History Quiz

Each song has a story. What inspired it? When was it made? By whom?

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Digital Classroom

Chronozoom is a dynamic timeline tool that presents large scale timelines in a creative way.

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Thinking Like Historians

Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Elementary)
Historical Thinking Poster Elementary
Find strategies, quizzes, and lessons for teaching historical thinking in your classroom. | [...] »
Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)
Historical Thinking Poster Elementary
Find strategies, quizzes, and lessons for teaching historical thinking in your classroom. | [...] »
Civil War Interactive Poster
Historical Thinking Poster Elementary
Get students thinking like historians as they learn about the Civil War! | [...] »