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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
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History 
Beautiful scenery or impassable peaks? These 17 in-depth essays analyze how[...] »
Primary Documents in American History 
The Library of Congress presents 35 of the most important documents from[...] »
Post-1865
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
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[...] »
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
Digital History
Multimedia resources for teaching slavery, private life, technology, and[...] »