Online resource designed to improve students' knowledge of standard topics in U.S. History and to improve their ability to understand material culture objects as types of historical evidence. Includes ...

Introduction: why historiography matters -- History and things in the twentieth century -- Karl Lamprecht and the "material turn" c. 1885 -- Things as historical evidence in the late Renaissance and ...

The ultimate historical investigation, very old objects can take you on a journey that predates history itself. Many different items fall under this heading, and we have arbitrarily limited the ...

Spotlight on a vintage WWI cartridge and what it reveals about the earliest days of the struggle against communist Russia. Students share the stories behind a favorite object or family artifact and ...

History can build and destroy nations, create and end wars and help society wrangle with ethical obligations and failures. But when teachers reduce it to an endless scroll of names and dates that have ...