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=Read and Learn from teaching history.org= [|History in Action] [|Examples of Historical Thinking] [|Using Primary Sources] [|Teaching with Textbooks] Following are examples of the above topics. Click on the link to view more.

[|Examples of Historical Thinking]
//Scholars, students, and teachers model historical thinking//

[|Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman]
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography of [|[... »]]

[|FDR's Fireside Chats]
Historian Allida Black analyzes FDR's April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat. What ideas [|[... »]]

[|The Election of 1932: Photographs of FDR]
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [|[... »]]

[|Women's Suffrage: Jane Addams's Article]
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [|[... »]]

[|Two Blues Songs]
Written primary sources only tell you so much. To learn about history that was [|[... »]]

[|Teaching in Action]
//Teachers demonstrate promising teaching practices//

[|Integrating Language Arts and History]
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [|[... »]]

[|Prologue to Studying the Emancipation Proclamation]
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation. [|[... »]]

[|Using Primary Sources]
//Strategies for analyzing primary sources//

[|Focus on Film]
Transform film from a source of entertainment to a piece of historical evidence. [|[... »]]

[|Evoking the Past]
When visiting historical sites, sometimes you need a visual/emotional "hook" to [|[... »]]

[|Teaching with Textbooks]
//Techniques for promoting historical inquiry//

[|Using Historiography to Analyze the Mexican-American War]
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, perspective [|[... »]]

[|Opening Up the Textbook]
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and [|[... »]]

[|Building a Conversation between Textbooks, Students, and Teachers]
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [|[... »]]

[|The Grammar of History Textbooks Part II: Questioning the Text]
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases. [|[... »]]

[|The Grammar of History Textbooks, Part I: Language Analysis]
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [|[... »]]