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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
Boston's Bloody Affray 
A struggle over naming a struggle—when and where did the Boston Massacre[...] »
Women's Rights: Sarah Bagley Letters 
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social[...] »
Post-1865
Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History 
Slavery, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement—you have to teach these[...] »
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film 
Do films capture your students' attention? Introduce them to Roosevelt in[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Reading Like a Historian
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical[...] »
Using Technology
Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures
Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical[...] »