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Through the lens of documents concerning the Iran-Contra Affair, this lesson [...] »
Teach your students about causality with this useful activity.
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Explore a lesson, designed especially for English Language Learners, that [...] »
Use this strategy to help students discover historic actors—the people, [...] »
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Help students understand the how religious beliefs shaped Americans' [...] »
Help students understand recent immigration history by exploring photographs [...] »
Help students reconsider the how the expansion of the United States from [...] »
This guide focuses on the history of free speech in one crucial year ( [...] »
Are classroom discussions about winning the argument or about understanding [...] »
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