Teachers will find this a superb guide book for teaching students how to critically examine documents from the past. The guide contains lessons and resources for Wisconsin history but the teaching methodology can be adapted for anywhere.

Six interactive activities are presented that walk students through how to use their critical thinking skills in the analysis of historical artifacts and documents. The sixth one explains how to balance the various perspectives that...

Students become detectives, reading and analyzing documents and artifacts as clues to the life of a nineteenth century woman, Annie Steel. The students then use various materials to create a series of collages.

Site from National Archives provides copies of primary documents that can be used while presenting various topics in U.S. history.

As part of 'Creating the United States' interactive resource, this section deals with creating the Declaration of Independence. Connect particular phrases and ideas set down in the Declaration of Independence with texts that preceded it....

This lesson provides guidelines for teaching students how to use primary sources such as images, text, or statistics (e.g., maps, census). Includes a document analysis worksheet.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students use nineteenth-century maps and art, and consider the roots of American exceptionalism.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to examine how advocates and critics of American...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students read speeches by Thaddeus Stevens and Andrew Johnson in order to explore why the Radical...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students study the Spanish-American War by watching a documentary video, reading a telegram...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. This unit explores perspectives on the key issues of the Progressive Era.

In this instructional activity, Students examine the Texas Declaration of Independence and compare it to the United States Declaration of Independence for similarities and differences, with particular attention paid to the terminology...

Looking for a way for your students to use more primary sources? This website contain cases that give students experiences similar to those of a real historian.

Provides a multi-unit curriculum kit relating to the study of war that incorporates media literacy. All material is free to download and includes teacher guides, student handouts, historical documents, slideshows, and more.

[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...

Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...

In-depth analysis of the use of presidential power to send troops abroad without consent of Congress.

A detailed guide on how to research and plan a historical project using the Internet and its vast resources. Some of the topics explored are: how to design a website copyright law, how to digitize materials and much more.

These student worksheets and activities help students analyze many different types of primary source documents. Life histories, objects, and photographs are all used to engage students.

Using historical documents and photos the battle of Gallipoli is traced.

This site from Library of Congress provides a multimedia site using historical documents to tell the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The movies require high speed access but the site will hold student interest.

Access to many of Mark Twain's letters and writings. You can click on "biographies" to read about people mentioned in Twain's writings. Use the user's guide to navigate the site.

This Library of Congress exhibit uses historic, primary documents to trace the life and accomplishments of Winston Churchill.

A fantastic teacher resource tool for helping students understand the significance of the Boston Massacre as an event that propelled America into a war for independence with England.