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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!
—Anonymous
9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Bill of Rights 
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was[...] »
Labor and Trade in Colonial America 
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do,[...] »
Post-1865
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
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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Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Recreating the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's[...] »
Using Technology
Joe Jelen on Digital Timelines
Tired of using up rolls of butcher paper on making timelines? High-school[...] »