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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
With the advent of industry and western expansion, U.S. businesses mass [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching the Reconstruction? Ford's Theatre's Sarah Jencks leads teachers [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Teaching in Action
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
This source from Cornell University's Olin and Uris Libraries includes [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »