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Teaching with Textbooks
I have used this activity with Native Americans and slavery with great success. I have worked over the years to collect a variety of old textbooks from different time periods.
—Anonymous
6-8 Resources
Pre-1865
1775 Colonial Newspaper Article 
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article[...] »
Charters of Freedom 
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Explore documents that helped to shape the history of our nation.
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Post-1865
Reconstruction 
This video produced by Annenberg Media offers a comprehensive look at the[...] »
The Early Conservation Movement 
The "go-green" movement is rampant in modern America. However, support for[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
What Is an "Inquiry Lesson"?
Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of[...] »
Using Technology
Geo-Literacy Project: Students Explore Their World
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and[...] »