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For Teachers

This section of Digital History has been developed to support teachers in secondary and post-secondary American History classrooms.

• Modules about American History

  Each module contains: a succinct historical overview; recommended documents; and teaching resources, fact checks, and activities.

• Classroom Handouts and Fact Sheets

  Ignite your students' love of history with our ready-to-use collections of
  primary sources, graphs, charts, and study questions.

• Lesson Plans

Developed and tested by master teachers, our lesson plans are designed to
support student learning through a wide range of active learning projects.

Lesson plans by master teacher Tom Ladenburg

• Quizzes

We have developed quizzes for each era in American history.

• Tools to Analyze Primary Sources:
  • Primary Source Analysis Worksheets and Forms
  • Questions for Analyzing Primary Sources
  • Information for students about Primary and Secondary Sources from the National Park Service
    reproduced on Digital History.
  • Information about Using Primary Sources in the Classroom from the Library of Congress, reproduced on Digital History.