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
Founding Mothers 
Sharp quills did the bidding of the even sharper intellects of the[...] »
Charters of Freedom 
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Explore documents that helped to shape the history of our nation.
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Post-1865
Mexican-American War and the Media 
More than 5,500 transcribed newspaper articles related to the Mexican-[...] »
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
What Is an "Inquiry Lesson"?
Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of[...] »
Using Technology
An Ear for the Past: The National Jukebox
Catchy primary sources? You bet! With the Library of Congress's National[...] »