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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 this series of videos about how teachers use these materials in their classrooms.

Click here for a complete list of Reading Like a Historian lessons.

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  • U.S. History (19)
  • World History (1)
Image: Photo taken after the signing of the armistice in the Compiègne forest on November 11, 1918.

Armistice

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Image: Photo of Sitting Bull taken by David Francis Barryin 1885. From the Library of Congress.

Battle of Little Bighorn

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

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Great Plains Homesteaders

Great Plains Homesteaders

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Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

Chinese Immigration and Exclusion

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Image: Photo of Albert Parsons taken in 1880. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Albert Parsons SAC

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Image: Drawing of the Homestead Steel Strike by Charles Mente, 1892. From the Library of Congress.

Homestead Strike

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Image: Photo of National Guard in Pullman during railroad strike taken in 1894. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Pullman Strike

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Image: Photo of Populist Convention in Nebraska taken by Solomon D. Butcher in 1892. From the Library of Congress.

Populism and the Election of 1896

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