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 resources for teaching about the Hispanic-Latinx experience.
Our new World War II page includes hundreds of primary sources and teaching activities!
Find primary sources and online teaching activities related to immigration on DocsTeach.
Find resources about U.S. immigration and refugee policy during World War II and the Holocaust, shared during a recent webinar.
Find primary source documents and teaching activities related to protecting and expanding rights in America in commemoration of Bill of Rights Day on December 15.
Access primary sources and teaching activities for the Progressive Era, the 1920s, immigration, and a changing America at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
Find primary sources documenting the Hispanic-Latinx experience and government relations throughout U.S. history.
Find primary sources and online activities for teaching about Industrialization and Immigration.
A new teaching activity focuses on a teenage refugee's written composition about his experience in the United States during WWII.
