Quick Links for High School Teachers

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

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

What was it like to be a slave in 19th-century America? Accounts contrast.[...] »

Help students reconsider the how the expansion of the United States from[...] »

Slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement—you have to teach these[...] »

Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by[...] »

Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade-[...] »