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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Little Bighorn

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to explore causes of the Battle of Little Bighorn by...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Populism: 1896 Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students to read two Populist speeches in order to explain why...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Homestead Strike

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry activity allows students to use the historical thinking skills of corroboration,...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Albert Parsons Sac

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students read six different sources that provide insight into what happened at Haymarket Square...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Pullman Strike

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students read parallel accounts of the Pullman Strike of 1894...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Maine Explosion

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War, the New York Times and...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Political Bosses

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Jacob Riis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to investigate the photographs of 19th-century progressive...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Segregation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate a central historical question. For this investigation, students contextualize President Theodore Roosevelt's turn-of-the-century speeches and letters...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Anti Suffragists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage literature to explore...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sedition in World War I

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read anti-war literature from World War I critics...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students deliberate the origins of the Chicago race riots by exploring five documents that...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Prohibition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Soldiers in Philippines

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This inquiry lesson allows students to use close reading skills to read a variety of primary source...
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Hofstra University

Hofstra Univ: Why Was Bubonic Plague So Devastating to European Society? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" came out of the eastern Mediterranean along shipping routes, reaching Italy in the spring of 1348. By the time the epidemic was abating in 1351, between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had died. The...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: League of Nations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to investigate why the League of Nations...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: World War I & 1920s

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate historical events. In this lesson students analyze historical evidence as they consider eight document-based questions about the post-war era of the...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Source: Clashing Views During the Colonial Period

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use primary documents to evaluate a statement concerning radical views of the colonial revolutionaries and the conservative philosophy of the loyalist colonists.

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