In this guest post, teacher Maria Adamson shares techniques for drawing students into the messiness of history, and giving them practice asking critically minded questions of the sources they encounter. Using this approach, she developed two new teaching activities focusing on identification papers of several Chinese people who were "on exhibit" in an ethnographic display in Philadelphia in 1899.
Find primary sources and teaching activities for National History Day!
In Green v. New Kent County, the 1968 Supreme Court ruled that a "freedom of choice" plan was not sufficient to bring about desegregation. The decision spurred on desegregation in earnest in Virginia schools.
Recent highlights of primary sources newly added to DocsTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives
Find primary sources and teaching activities for National History Day!
Discover new primary sources and teaching activities on DocsTeach. Learn about an art competition for grades 4-6.
Find primary sources and teaching activities related to women's rights and changing roles in American history on a new DocsTeach topic page.
Primary sources and teaching activities provide students an opportunity to compare and contrast attitudes on immigration during this turbulent period in modern history.
Recent highlights of primary sources newly added to DocsTeach
A journal article and podcast provide a deeper dive into students rights cases, including Tinker v. Des Moines.
