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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
Denmark Vesey 
Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted[...] »
History Now: American History Online 
Read this quarterly journal which focuses on a different topic in American[...] »
Post-1865
Panic of 1873 
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States[...] »
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[...] »
