From Sources to Stories: Reconstructing Revolutionary Lexington in the Classroom
To explore how you can teach with primary sources in the classroom, use the link below to access an article appearing in the August, 2009 edition of The History Teacher.
In it, historian Mary Fuhrer, who contributed to “Sowing the Seeds of Liberty: Lexington and the American Revolution” and the “Lexington in 1775” curriculum, discusses how to reconstruct how people of the past felt, what they believed, and what choices determined their actions.
http://www.thehistoryteacher.org/fuhrer.pdf
To find texts referred to in the article, click below:
Reconstructing Revolutionary Lexington: Sources
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