Examining the Evidence: Seven Strategies for Teaching with Primary Sources (Maupin House)

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Educators are being challenged as never before to invite reality into the classroom and allow students to explore it. This book will help you meet the challenge. Primary sources are the very documents that history is made of, the images that science is based on, the raw material of our lives. They are also excellent tools to teach the critical thinking skills required by the Common Core State Standards. This book reveals in detail the strategies you can use to make primary sources come alive for your students and to enhance visual literacy, using fascinating photographs and powerful primary source texts.

Hilary Mac Austin has been working in the fields of visual history and educational development for 20 years. She has been the primary photo researcher as well as a writer and editor for a number of publications, including Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, the second edition of Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present. She has served as image lead and project manager of digital assets for a number of educational programs. Thompson and Austin co-authored The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present, Children of the Depression, and America's Children: Images of Childhood from Exploration To the Present. The Face of Our Past was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today, and on Oprah.

Kathleen Thompson has been a writer for 40 years. She is the author of the feminist classic Against Rape, co-written with Andra Medea, and the first narrative history of black women in America, A Shining Thread of Hope, co-written with Darlene Clark Hine. She is also an award-winning playwright and the author of hundreds of children's books, including volumes for both the Hispanic Biographies series and the Portraits of America series. In addition she has worked in the field of educational publishing since 1975 and was a founder of the educational development house Sense and Nonsense.