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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[...] »
Theodore Roosevelt and the 1912 Election 
Students learn more about the larger than life figure of Theodore Roosevelt[...] »
Post-1865
Writing to Learn History: Annotations and Mini-Writes 
A pen or pencil in your student's hand is an excellent tool for teaching[...] »
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
Using Historical Ephemera in the Classroom
Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical[...] »
