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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 (35)
  • (-) World History (28)

Time Period

  • Before 500 BCE (3)
  • (-) 500 BCE - 1 CE (7)
  • 1 CE - 500 CE (4)
  • 500 CE - 1300 CE (4)
  • 1300s (4)
  • 1400s (1)
  • 1500s (8)
  • 1600s (3)
  • (-) 1700s (2)
  • 1800s (4)
  • (-) 1900s (18)
Image: Photograph of the Acropolis from the Pnyx taken in 1967 by Roger Wollstadt. From Flickr.

Athenian Democracy SAC

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Image: Photograph of the Roman Forum taken in 2005. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Roman Republic

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Image: Persian warriors from a replica of the Ishtar Gate, 575 BCE. Retrieved from the Wikimedia Commons.

Battle of Thermopylae

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Image: Statue of Laozi in Quanzhou, China. Photo taken by Tommy Wong in 2007. From Flickr.

Confucianism and Daoism

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Image: Photo of a terracotta warrior from the First Emperor's tomb. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Fall of the Qin Dynasty

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Image: Drawing of Cleopatra made by Michelangelo between 1533 and 1534. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Cleopatra

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Image: Sculpture of Augustus as pontifex maximus created in 20 BCE. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Augustus

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Image: 1790 Diagram of a ship from the Atlantic slave trade. From the Wikimedia Commons.

The Middle Passage

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Image: A painting by Pierre-Antoine de Machy illustrating an execution by guillotine, 1807. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Reign of Terror

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