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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
Declaration of Independence 
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely,[...] »
An American Family: The Beecher Tradition 
Did you know that Harriet Beecher Stowe's family was also involved in[...] »
Post-1865
20th-century Jewish Immigration 
Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of[...] »
Reconstruction 
This video produced by Annenberg Media offers a comprehensive look at the[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents
Teach your students to read like a historian with this guided four-step[...] »
Using Technology
An Ear for the Past: The National Jukebox
Catchy primary sources? You bet! With the Library of Congress's National[...] »