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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
Primary Documents in American History 
The Library of Congress presents 35 of the most important documents from[...] »
Abraham Lincoln and the Jews 
Students learn about the sixteenth president's relationship with Jewish[...] »
Post-1865
Writing to Learn History: Annotations and Mini-Writes 
A pen or pencil in your student's hand is an excellent tool for teaching[...] »
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Reading Like a Historian
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical[...] »
