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History Lessons

Reading Like a Historian

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features a set of primary documents designed for groups of students with a range of reading skills.

This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. To learn more about how to use Reading Like a Historian lessons, watch these videos about how teachers use these materials in their classrooms.

Click here for a complete list of Reading Like a Historian lessons, and click here for a complete list of materials available in Spanish.

Topic

  • (-) U.S. History (45)
  • World History (13)

Time Period

  • (-) Colonial Era (9)
  • (-) Revolutionary War and Early U.S. (11)
  • Slavery and Expansion (10)
  • Civil War and Reconstruction (9)
  • The Gilded Age (9)
  • (-) American Imperialism (4)
  • Progressive Era (11)
  • (-) World War I and the 1920s (14)
  • The New Deal and World War II (12)
  • Cold War (7)
  • Civil Rights Era and Cold War Culture (17)
  • (-) Late 1900s and Early 2000s (7)
Engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe was created in 1616.

Pocahontas

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Image: Reproduction of The First Thanksgiving 1621, originally painted by J.L.G. Ferris. From the Library of Congress.

The First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons

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Image: Lithograph of John Winthrop made by Anthony Vandyke in the 17th century. From the Wikimedia Commons.

The Puritans

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Image: Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida by Joan Vinckeboons, 1639?. From the Library of Congress.

Examining Passenger Lists

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Image: Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gerhard Mercator, 1636. From the Bill Lane Center for the American West.Image: Map of Virginia and Maryland by Gerhard Mercator, 1636. From the John Carter Brown Library.

Mapping the New World

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Image: Engraving of King Philip by Benjamin Church, 1881. From the Library of Congress.

King Philip's War

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Cover page of Wonders of the invisible world: being an account of the trials of several witches, lately executed in New England.

Salem Witch Trials

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Image: Pictorial map of Spanish missions in California created in 1949. From the Library of Congress.

Portola Expedition

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Painting of the San Francisco Presidio depicted by artist Louis Choris, ca. 1815. From the Calisphere Digital Library.

California Missions

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