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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 (16)
  • World History (6)
Mexican Migration in the 1930s image

Mexican Migration in the 1930s

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Image: Photo of Oklahoma farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm taken in 1936 by Arthur Rothstein. From the Library of Congress.

The Dust Bowl

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Image: Photo of unemployed lumber worker with social security number tattooed on his arm taken by Dorothea Lange in 1939. From the Library of Congress.

New Deal SAC

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Image: Photo of President Roosevelt Signing the 1935 Social Security Act. From the Wikimedia Commons.

Social Security

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Migrant Mother photograph

Migrant Mother Photograph

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Image: Photo of people leaving Buddhist church in Manzanar Relocation Center taken by Ansel Adams in 1943. From the Library of Congress.

Japanese American Incarceration

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Image: Photograph of the Miyatake family at Manzanar in 1943. From the Library of Congress.

Adams at Manzanar

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Image: Photo of sailors, soldiers, and marines with wooden clubs during the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943. From the Library of Congress.

Zoot Suit Riots

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Image: Photo of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945. From the Library of Congress.

The Atomic Bomb

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