Students will gain skills necessary for researching by locating credible and original sources, determining if the sources are primary or secondary, ascertaining the qualifications and reputation of ...

Using primary sources can be a powerful and evocative way to engage students in history. However, students can sometimes have trouble understanding or analyzing primary sources. The following ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

Newspapers, photographs, postcards, maps and other primary sources offer firsthand testimonies of the past. Materials like these provide inside looks into history, often humanizing what we’ve read ...

Seth Cayley explains why primary sources are a powerful learning tool to help students gain a better understanding of current events and hone critical-thinking skills We are at an inflection point in ...

History is not a fixed narrative. It involves evolving accounts of the past shaped by those who lived it, along with those who remember, interpret, and examine them. As Singaporeans celebrate the 60th ...