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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Take a look at artifacts from the past—what might they be? Teachers model [...] »
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying [...] »
High school students use primary sources to question their textbook's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade- [...] »
Learn how to teach your students historical thinking with this informative [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »