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Teaching with Textbooks

Introduce students to the idea that history shows interpretation, perspective,[...] »
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

Theodore Roosevelt and the 1912 Election

Students learn more about the larger than life figure of Theodore Roosevelt[...] »

History Now: American History Online
Illustration, Bank note from the Bank of the US, Dec. 13, 1840, U.S. Mint.

Read this quarterly journal which focuses on a different topic in American[...] »

Post-1865

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[...] »

Agents of Social Change: 20th-Century Women's Activism
Photo. Jessie Lloyd with an unidentified group. 1928

Source documents to help you approach 20th-century feminism.


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Classroom Tools

Historical Thinking & Literacy

Reading Like a Historian
Photo, We <3 Students Who <3 Reading, Mar. 9, 2010, Enokson, Flickr

Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical[...] »

Using Technology

“A Push” in the Right Direction
Screencap, TJ Students (apushhelp) on Twitter, 30 July 2012

AP U.S. History teacher Scott Campbell and his students use Twitter to reach[...] »