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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
Boston's Bloody Affray 
A struggle over naming a struggle—when and where did the Boston Massacre[...] »
Abraham Lincoln and the Jews 
Students learn about the sixteenth president's relationship with Jewish[...] »
Post-1865
The Tet Offensive 
American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for[...] »
Rethinking "Westward Expansion": A Guide for Preservice Teachers 
Help students reconsider the how the expansion of the United States from[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Recreating the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's[...] »
