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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What [...] »
How do the speeches of Sojourner Truth and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Watch J. Douglas Smith discuss the Massive Resistance policy enacted by U.S [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
The Bracero Archive’s tutorial shows how to conduct successful interviews. [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »