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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

Lesson Plan Reviews

Only 60 settlers out of 600 survived the winter of 1609–1610 in Jamestown [...] »

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Photo, No climate justice without gender justice!, Mongkhonsawat Luengvorapant

Teach your students to learn, care, and think internationally.


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History Content

Website Reviews
Oil painting, The Flag of Sumter, Conrad Wise Chapman, Museum of the Confederacy

Chapman spent more than 20 years painting Civil War Charleston after his [...] »

Website Reviews

Displays, explains, and interprets the Lakota pictorial histories known as [...] »

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Best Practices

Examples of Historical Thinking

Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »

Examples of Historical Thinking

Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »

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History Quiz

Column A and Column B

In the 19th century, no one expected Chinese food to take off in the United States.

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Digital Classroom

Chronozoom

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! | [...] »