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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[...] »
Civil War's Causes: Historians Largely United on Slavery, But Public Divided 
Major historic events are always shrouded in controversy. Check out this[...] »
Post-1865
Veterans, Oral History, and the Library of Congress 
Veteran oral history projects relate the classroom to real people and real[...] »
The Early Conservation Movement 
The "go-green" movement is rampant in modern America. However, support for[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Deciphering Primary Source Documents
Create scaffolding and careful preparation of documents to promote student[...] »
Using Technology
Geo-Literacy Project: Students Explore Their World
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and[...] »