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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
Religion and the Civil War: A Guide for Pre-Service Teachers 
Help students understand the how religious beliefs shaped Americans'[...] »
History Now: American History Online 
Read this quarterly journal which focuses on a different topic in American[...] »
Post-1865
Panic of 1873 
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States[...] »
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
The Research Paper: Developing Historical Questions
Research papers are not an archaic form of assessment. Learn how to help[...] »
Using Technology
Primary Source Sets on the Web
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade-[...] »