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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
Africans in America 
Trace the history of Africans in America through Reconstruction, with 245[...] »
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
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
Everyday Life in the 19th Century 
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Wandering through time into our ancestors' attic.
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Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Lincoln on the Big Screen
How do historians think about films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln[...] »
Using Technology
Digital History
Multimedia resources for teaching slavery, private life, technology, and[...] »