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History Matters

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, History Sites, ResourcesJanuary 21, 2022

Designed for both high school and college classrooms, History Matters helps students actively interpret evidence about the lives of ordinary Americans. It contains descriptions of and links to more than 1000 websites and first-person primary source documents, guides for analyzing historical evidence, classroom activities, and other resources. This award-winning site is a project of ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

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