This lesson introduces students to using historical thinking skills to analyze a document. It includes three activities that ask students to source, contextualize, and corroborate a historical document. Each activity also provides students with an opportunity to engage in lateral reading about an internet source related to the historical topic addressed by the primary source.
Image: Molly Pitcher Firing Cannon at Battle of Monmouth by Edward Percy Moran, 1911. From the Library of Congress.