Teaching the Civil War provides content for Pennsylvania Academic Standards in History:
8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development
8.2 Pennsylvania History
8.3 U.S. History
Content on this website is specifically keyed to two Standard Statements within each of the Academic History Standards above:
- How Continuity and Change Have Influenced History
- Conflict and Cooperation among Social Groups and Organizations
In each of those sections, you will find entries that relate to the other two Standard Statements:
- Primary Documents, Material Artifacts and Historic Places
- Political and Cultural Contributions of Individual and Groups
How to search
- Choose a Standards Statement Topic
- Narrow your search by Sub-Topic
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Secondary source, able to be read by secondary level student |
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Primary source. For a good primer on how to teach with primary sources, see http://www.smithsoniansource.org/tea/viewdetails.aspx |
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Teaching material and lesson plan, background reading on a more scholarly level |
| I |
Interactive or multi-media that a student can use directly |
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Place to visit or event to attend |