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Making Sense of Evidence
Scholars In Action
Oral History Exercise - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/question1.html
Film Exercise - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/question1.html
Photography Exercise - http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/ell/Photos/question4.html
David Kobrin, Thomas Jefferson High School
Jennifer Orr
Sources for Letter, Photos, Advertisement



Making Sense of Evidence Main Page - http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/



History Matters - Making Sense of Documents


















History Matters - Scholars in Action



Analyze an 1804 Inventory



Analyze a Thomas Nast Cartoon



Analyze Two Blues Songs



Analyze a Daguerreotype



Analyze Nineteenth Century Letters



Analyze Abolitionist Speeches



Analyze a Melville Short Story



Analyze a Colonial Newspaper


David Kobrin (High School)

Slavery - The Life of Someone Enslaved
(http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dkobrin/slavery)

Lewis and Clark Cross and Recross the Continent - What did they learn?
(http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dkobrin/webquest)


Jennifer Orr (Elementary School)

U.S. History Sites Used During Presentation
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/tah/orr.html)

More Websites for U.S. History
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/tah/orr.html#websites)


Sources for Letter, Photos, Advertisement (Activities 1 and 2)

Original Letter - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/1863-12-10/1863-12-10.html
Collection Original Letter Came From - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/
Photograph 1 - http://memory.loc.gov/, go to the "Search" page, type in "J. Stewart Wedding Party" and press "Search".
Photograph 2 - http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/galleries/newcent.html
Photograph 3 - http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/galleries/newcent.html
Advertisment - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu:80/dynaweb/mma/cough/@Generic__BookTextView/2504

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