Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Artifacts
Learn the steps in the 5-step process that historians use when they analyze an artifact as you investigate what you can learn from Native American and other items.
Library of Congress
Loc: Become a Historical Detective
Search American Memory collections and play the role of a detective in this lesson that seeks to find out if Billy the Kid really was killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Rethinking the Rise of the West
Historical interpretation is subjective, and therefore views on particular movements, such as the western world's rise to power as covered in this unit, can be altered over time by historians.
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.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Interpretation in the National Park Service
Although this on-line book is from 1986, it can give the student a good perspective of the National Park Service and their never-ending quest to interpret the history that took place on their grounds for the American public.
Tom Richey
Tom richey.net: Columbus and the Legacy of Discovery [Ppt]
Presents key ideas for examining how Christopher Columbus is remembered in America and how his legacy has been re-interpreted at various times in history.