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Death on the River: Solving the Mystery Through Analysis of Primary Sources
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Two groups meet and clash. There is smoke, the report of a gun, and people die. One side cries "Murderer" while the other claims self-defense. Each day in courts of America witnesses take the stand and juries attempt to sift through claims and counter claims to arrive at some understanding of the truth. The historian is like a detective. There are many mysteries and incidents in history to unravel and the historian becomes both detective and jury in constructing and then detailing a "truthful...
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TEACHING HISTORY: Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths.
Phi Delta Kappan
; Using primary sources in history classes is all the rage. But if teachers are not reflective about the best use of such materials, they may engage students in exercises that are neither historically nor instructionally sound. Mr. Barton points out common misconceptions about primary sources and
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A Story Well Told: Primary Sources and History Education
Social Studies Review
; Tom Adams begins the preface to the 2001 edition of the History-Social Science Framework for California Public Schools with a statement from Francis Parkman that provides a wonderful context for this discussion about the use of primary sources in history education. In order to have "Faithfulness to
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Using online primary sources with students.(includes list of collections at the Library of Congress' Web site and sample document)
The Social Studies
; Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. That old saying holds special meaning for history teachers who have wished that accessing primary source documents was easier. Thanks to the Library of Congress's National Digital Library (NDL) project, more than one million American history documents
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(book review)
Childhood Education
; SEEKING HISTORY: Teaching With Primary Sources in Grades 49. M. Edinger. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 162 pp. $22.50. Edinger shares her joy in helping students discover learning through primary sources with a text rich in teacher techniques, ideas, and scenarios. Readers take an inviting tour
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Fischer, Kirsten, and Eric Hinderaker, eds. Colonial American History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
History: Review of New Books
; Malden: Blackwell 385 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-631-21854-8 Publication Date: January 2002 In volume 9 of the Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History series, Kirsten Fischer and Eric Hinderaker have continued the purpose of pairing fairly recent historical scholarship and relevant
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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher-- Using Primary Sources in the Elementary Classroom.
The Social Studies
; A fourth-grade class in Indianapolis engaged in a study of Calvin Fletcher through the use of primary sources. Because the students lived in the same community as Calvin Fletcher, they were able to use primary sources to compare and contrast the present community with its past. Although Calvin
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History Resource Center: Modern World. (online).
The Book Report
; History Resource Center: Modern World <www.galegroup.com>. 2001. $25. The Gale Group. Grade 10 & Up This outstanding site draws on a variety of reference, periodical, and primary sources to offer student researchers and teachers a wealth of information about the 20th century. The
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Evaluation of primary sources.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review)
The Australian Library Journal
; Kent-Drury, Roxanne M Using internet primary sources to teach critical thinking skills in world literature. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005. 194p US$65.00 soft ISBN 0313320098 (available from James Bennett Pty Ltd) Educators dedicated to developing their students' ability to think
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Enhancing the curriculum using primary sources: women engaged in war.
Teacher Librarian
; ... sources online, including documents and visual resources such as photographs, posters, portraits, realia, statues, monuments, and maps. Vandergrift (1998), for example, has written of the usefulness of Internet resources for the study of gender equity in World ...
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Using the Bayeux tapestry to discover the past. (teaching history)
The Clearing House
; Historians attempt to recreate the past by seeking out and analyzing primary sources. That analysis involves * comparing sources from the same historical period to determine, among other things, which source is the most accurate in its description of a particular historical person or event; *
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