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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
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History 
Beautiful scenery or impassable peaks? These 17 in-depth essays analyze how[...] »
Denmark Vesey 
Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted[...] »
Post-1865
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film 
Do films capture your students' attention? Introduce them to Roosevelt in[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Reading Like a Historian
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical[...] »
