Designed for high school and college teachers and young scholars, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

A vast resource filled with information on teaching history at all grade levels. There are links to podcasts, teaching materials, primary source documents, videos, and best practices in the teaching of history. Don't miss this fantastic...

Students will analyze primary source documents related to the National History Day (NHD) theme for 2011-12: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History, determine how the documents are connected to the theme, and evaluate the effectiveness...

Find assets by location and call up specific item information including films, connected themes and related classroom resources. A wealth of primary source images from events in American history.

After learning to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, students will examine four primary documents and address a set of questions for each.

A varied collection of primary resources from American history. They include portraits, banknotes, artifacts, newspaper items, paintings, and illustrations.

This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...

Find relationships among primary and secondary sources of information that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.

In this activity students will analyze documents that span the course of American history to determine their connection to the different phrases found within the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.

This entry explains the need for evaluation sources, especially internet sources. W.9-10.6 Techno

Learn how to analyze and compare the relationship between a primary and a secondary source.

Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.

A lesson that takes young scholars through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone...