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What is Historical Thinking? Watch this introductory video (or download the transcript) for an overview of ways of thinking inherent in knowing and doing history. Historical thinking is complex and multi-faceted; we focus on five key aspects particularly relevant to the K-12 classroom. These are: Multiple Accounts & PerspectivesAnalysis of Primary SourcesSourcingContextClaim-evidence Connection What resources are available to help with understanding these facets and teaching them to students of all ages? Multiple Accounts & Perspectives The textbook’s account is the one that students encounter most frequently and routinely in their history classrooms. Explore our Lesson Plan Review section to find exemplar lessons for every grade level that use multiple accounts. Analysis of Primary Sources Using multiple accounts highlights the necessity of analyzing those accounts and students need explicit instruction in how to analyze primary sources. Sourcing Context Claim-Evidence Connection Image Credits
MEDIA: %3Cem%3EAfter+the+Sale%3A+Slaves+Going+South+from+Richmond%3C%2Fem%3E An 1854 oil painting by English artist Eyre Crowe depicts newly purchased slaves being loaded into a railroad car at the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad depot on Eighth Street in Richmond. While accompanying British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray on a speaking tour in the United States in 1853, Crowe attended a slave auction in Richmond and afterwards noted, "We saw the usual exodus of negro slaves, marched under escort of their new owners across the town to the railway station, where they took places, and 'went South.'" Written on the side of the railroad car are the words "Warrenton Ridgeway," which indicate that the slaves are being moved south toward Ridgeway, North Carolina. (From North Carolina some or all of the slaves might have been sent farther south, part of the large-scale movement of slaves from the Upper South to the Lower South.) The Virginia State Capitol is visible in the distance beyond the chaotic railway scene.
MEDIA: %22A+Letter+from+the+Rev.+Mr.+George+Whitefield%2C+to+the+Inhabitants+of+Maryland%2C+Virginia%2C+North+and+South-Carolina%22 Anglican priest George Whitefield, an important leader of the First Great Awakening in Great Britain and America, chastises the slave owners in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas for mistreating their slaves and for failing to Christianize them. In his "Letter," which was published on April 17, 1740, in Benjamin Franklin's The Pennsylvania Gazette, Whitefield wrote: Your Dogs are caress’d and fondled at your Tables --- But your Slaves, who are frequently stiled Dogs or Beasts, have not an equal Privilege. They are scarce permitted to pick up the Crumbs which fall from their Masters Tables: Nay, some, as I have been informed by an Eye-Witness, have been, upon the most trifling Provocation, cut with Knives, and had Forks thrown into their Flesh --- Not to mention what Numbers have been given up to the inhuman Usage of cruel Task–Masters, who by their unrelenting Scourges have ploughed upon their Backs, and made long Furrows, and at length brought them even to Death itself.