Quicklinks for Middle School Teachers
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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
The Salem Witch Trials 
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis[...] »
Declaration of Independence 
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely,[...] »
Post-1865
20th-century Jewish Immigration 
Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of[...] »
What Does It Mean to Be an American? 
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Document Analysis Worksheets
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary[...] »
Using Technology
WhatWasThere
Put the past next to the present with this photo-sharing and mapping tool.[...] »