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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
Scholars in Action: Analyzing 19th-Century Letters 
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah[...] »
Africans in America 
Trace the history of Africans in America through Reconstruction, with 245[...] »
Post-1865
Panic of 1873 
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States[...] »
The Tet Offensive 
American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Lincoln on the Big Screen
How do historians think about films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln[...] »
Using Technology
Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures
Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical[...] »