Teachers can use differing interpretations of historical events to help students move from memorizing events to analyzing and ...

In this lesson, students view an excerpt from the Rogue Book that introduces a 1909 book featuring hundreds of clippings for lost and wanted men from the early 20th century. They analyze pages from ...

In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including ...

THE impulse of an American writer in justifying the use of newspapers as historical materials is to adopt an apologetic tone. It is somewhat curious that such should be the case, for newspapers ...

Raphaëlle Goyeau receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of East Anglia and the British Library. In 1534, ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

What does it mean for a high school student to read well? The answer is multilayered. Teenage readers need a solid foundation, encompassing the ability to read fluently and understand ...

At the University of Aberdeen William Hepburn works on a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is a director of Common Profyt Games Ltd. At the University of Aberdeen Jackson ...