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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.

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  • Intro Materials (12)
  • U.S. History (113)
  • World History (53)
Image: Photo of girl harvesting cotton crop by Howard R. Hollem, 1942. From the Library of Congress.

Snapshot Autobiography

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Image: Map of forces in Washington County, Maryland during the Battle of Antietam by Robert Knox Sneden, 1861-1865. From the Library of Congress

Evaluating Sources

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Image: Photo of elementary school lockers taken by Jayne Henderson Fiegel and Nathan Prichard in Louisville, KY, 1992. From the Library of Congress.

Make Your Case!

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Pyramids at Giza in 2006

Egyptian Pyramids

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Image: Relief of Hammurabi and the god Shamash from the stela copy of Hammurabi's Code. Retrieved from the Wikimedia Commons.

Hammurabi's Code

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Relief of Sennacherib’s siege of Lachish in the Palace of Sennacherib. From the Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem

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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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