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Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »

A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »

Potato chip marketing—how a luxury item became an everyday U.S. food.

A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.

On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »

This interactive tutorial models a four-step process for analyzing [...] »

See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »

Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »