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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
Charters of Freedom 
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Explore documents that helped to shape the history of our nation.
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The Salem Witch Trials 
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis[...] »
Post-1865
Flint Sit-Down Strike 
Provides a multimedia introduction to "the greatest strike in American[...] »
20th-century Jewish Immigration 
Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Document Analysis Worksheets
Find the National Archive's worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary[...] »
Using Technology
Social Pinboards
Organize and share your online finds using online social pinboard services[...] »