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Joe Jelen's Ads as Primary Sources: The Ad Council's Historic Campaigns
Advertisements don't always use ideas to sell products—sometimes they use [...] »
Anthony Pellegrino's Teaching with Class in Mind
How can you make history relevant to your students? Social studies/history [...] »
Amy Trenkle on National History Day—It's More than Just a Day…and It's More than Just History
National History Day's categories encourage students to develop 21st-century [...] »
Cintia Cabib's Interdisciplinary Gardening
Walk through the history of student gardening with documentarian Cintia [...] »
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2011
Scratch the surface of Asian Pacific American history this May, and keep [...] »
Jennifer Orr on Integrating History into 1st-grade Instruction
U.S. history doesn't usually have its own place in 1st-grade curriculum. How [...] »
Joe Jelen on Pocket Camcorders
With pocket camcorders, you can direct a class full of filmmakers. Joe Jelen [...] »
Michael Yell's Strategies for Using Primary Sources in Your Classroom
Combine strategies to create new techniques! Mike Yell combines DBQs and [...] »
Ron Gorr on Go to the Source (GTTS) Activities
Primary sources are crucial for historical study. AP history teacher Ron [...] »