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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
Bill of Rights 
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was[...] »
Boston's Bloody Affray 
A struggle over naming a struggle—when and where did the Boston Massacre[...] »
Post-1865
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Personalizing History 
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Sourcing a Primary Document
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes[...] »
