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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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Use this strategy to help students discover historic actors—the people, [...] »

Primary source analysis activities can help include English Language [...] »
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This guide consists of curated primary and secondary sources to help [...] »

Engaging Library of Congress primary sources that connect religion and [...] »

Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different "pictures of [...] »

Research papers are not an archaic form of assessment. Learn how to help [...] »

Are classroom discussions about winning the argument or about understanding [...] »
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