On a mission to make history interesting to everyone!

Teaching with Themes: Social History through Primary Sources promotes a thematic approach to teaching using primary source texts and images. While the main focus is upon history – interdisciplinary connections to literature, art, and other social science are featured using social history themes. Learners of all ages benefit from inquiry learning using primary sources and gain new insights by comparing modern everyday life to the past. Social history themes also showcase local history and place-based education.

If you are an educator (K-12 teacher, university professor, museum educator, or home-schooler) check out:

Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social StudiesMy books explore the history of things we do every day – eating, living in our homes, finding mates, and dreaming of vacations – is examined over the span of human history. Why are men and women supposed to act differently in relationships, in their homes, in the kitchen? Have people always dreamed of a vacation? What did people eat in the past? We know technology is changing our lives; how did new technology change the lives of our ancestors? Why do we fall for quack cures? What do the symbols in cemeteries mean? These questions and more are explored here for anyone interested in social history and the daily lives of average people.

Hardback Paperback Add to GoodReads Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and CemeteriesFor more about me, Cynthia Resor,

 


Exploring Vacation and Etiquette Themes in Social Studies Primary Source Inquiry for Middle and High SchoolAbout the header image: George & Doretta Brown Family, c. 1910, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Maternal great-grandparents of the author.