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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!
—Anonymous
9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
History Now: American History Online 
Read this quarterly journal which focuses on a different topic in American[...] »
Bill of Rights 
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was[...] »
Post-1865
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
Using Visuals to Build Interest and Understanding 
Using primary source images to help English Language Learners build[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Sourcing a Primary Document
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes[...] »
Using Technology
Joe Jelen on Digital Timelines
Tired of using up rolls of butcher paper on making timelines? High-school[...] »