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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
Labor and Trade in Colonial America
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do,[...] »
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Showcases more than 1,230 images depicting the enslavement of Africans, the[...] »
Post-1865
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
Do films capture your students' attention? Introduce them to Roosevelt in[...] »
Rethinking "Westward Expansion": A Guide for Preservice Teachers
Help students reconsider the how the expansion of the United States from[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Women's Suffrage: Burroughs's Article
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women[...] »
Using Technology
Digital History
Multimedia resources for teaching slavery, private life, technology, and[...] »