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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
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History 
Beautiful scenery or impassable peaks? These 17 in-depth essays analyze how[...] »
Scholars in Action: Analyzing 19th-Century Letters 
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah[...] »
Post-1865
Agents of Social Change: 20th-Century Women's Activism 
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Source documents to help you approach 20th-century feminism.
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Teaching African American History: Do We Still Need a Black History Month? 
Black History Month is as important now as when Carter Woodson first thought[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Lincoln on the Big Screen
How do historians think about films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln[...] »
Using Technology
Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures
Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical[...] »