Featured Article, Teaching with Primary Sources (Library of Congress) - 12 views
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Diana Kenney on 23 Feb 10Historians see themselves as detectives searching for evidence among primary sources to a mystery that can never be completely solved. Wouldn't this image be more enticing to a bored high school student? It would, and that's one reason why thinking like a historian deserves a place in the American classroom, the sooner the better.