Why Historical Thinking Matters

Explore free Reading Like a Historian lessons: https://www.inquirygroup.org/history-lessons Why should students work directly with historical documents? Educators explain how historical thinking builds ways of reasoning that transfer from the history classroom to the information students encounter every day. The Digital Inquiry Group’s free Reading Like a Historian curriculum teaches students to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, and close reading.