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What is Historical Thinking?
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Elementary Introduction
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Middle School Introduction
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High School Introduction
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Digital Classroom
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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 [...] »

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History Content

Website Reviews
Cartoon, Hare and Tortoise, 2000, Herb Block, Herblock's History.

View 150 cartoons drawn between 1929 and 2000 by Pulitzer Prize-winning [...] »

Website Reviews
Photo, African American children..., 1885-1966, James Wells, Nollau Collection.

Collects photographs, texts, and oral histories drawn from 15 Kentucky [...] »

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Best Practices

Teaching in Action

Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »

Examples of Historical Thinking

Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »

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History Quiz

Thanksgiving Dinner in 1943

What traditional Thanksgiving foods would have been hard to come by during WWII?

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Digital Classroom

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! | [...] »