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.
Read about one student's research into historical photographs to create a National History Day documentary about Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm.
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!
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Find primary sources and educational activities for teaching about African American history during Black History Month or any time.
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.
As the Pearl Harbor anniversary approaches, we're sharing historical documents, posters, photographs, and more related to the attack and its impact on U.S. History. On DocsTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives, you can find primary sources like maps and speeches – even images taken by the Japanese military during … Continue reading Pearl Harbor Primary Sources & Teaching Activities
