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Teaching with Textbooks
Lessons in which students compare secondary sources are a challenge for me to set up. This entry about comparing textbook accounts helped a lot!
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9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Abraham Lincoln and the Jews 
Students learn about the sixteenth president's relationship with Jewish[...] »
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record 
Showcases more than 1,230 images depicting the enslavement of Africans, the[...] »
Post-1865
Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History 
Slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement—you have to teach these[...] »
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Lincoln on the Big Screen
How do historians think about films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln[...] »
Using Technology
Joe Jelen on Digital Timelines
Tired of using up rolls of butcher paper on making timelines? High-school[...] »