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George W. Bush Library: What Do Historical Objects Tell Me? [Pdf]
A comprehensive lesson training learners to analyze historical objects to determine features, reliability, authenticity, and provenance through observation skills encouraged through a variety of activities.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: A Student's Guide to Historical Research
This resource focuses on teaching students how to do historical research via a series of steps. Historical photos and documents are included as examples.
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Usa Gov: u.s. History and Historical Documents
Discover highlights from American history, including military events and founding documents.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: When the Past Speaks to the Present: Thomas Jefferson,sally Hemings
[Free Registration/Login Required] An article about the need for careful interpretation of historical sources, especially in the area of slavery.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Teaching History: Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)
This is an interactive historical thinking poster. History is an argument about the past. Constructing a narrative about history involves several tasks: Analyzing Primary Sources, Examining Source Information,Using Evidence to Support...
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National Council on Public History: Evidence of the Past
Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.
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Family Chronicle: Dating Old Photographs
Family Chronicle provides information concerning photos from the 1850s-1900s. Details the background around the first photographs taken in the United States. Identifies what objects within the photograph can help determine the time...