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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
Women's Rights: Sarah Bagley Letters 
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social[...] »
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History 
Beautiful scenery or impassable peaks? These 17 in-depth essays analyze how[...] »
Post-1865
Panic of 1873 
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States[...] »
Using Visuals to Build Interest and Understanding 
Using primary source images to help English Language Learners build[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Sourcing a Primary Document
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes[...] »
