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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
Prologue to Studying the Emancipation Proclamation 
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An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Salem Witch Trials 
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis[...] »
Post-1865
Reconstruction 
This video produced by Annenberg Media offers a comprehensive look at the[...] »
Veterans, Oral History, and the Library of Congress 
Veteran oral history projects relate the classroom to real people and real[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Deciphering Primary Source Documents
Create scaffolding and careful preparation of documents to promote student[...] »
Using Technology
Integrating Technology into the Classroom
Upgrade to "school 2.0" through making the most of technological resources[...] »