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Published Date

January 1, 2004

AHA Topics

Teaching & Learning

By Linda Pomerantz
California State Univ., Dominguez Hills

This lesson is designed to illustrate ways that family history research using visual primary sources may be incorporated into a world history survey course. The lesson demonstrates ways to work with primary source materials and link them to large themes in world history.

 

Contents

Biography

Bridging the Digital Divide: Reflective Essay on “Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age”

Project Summary

Note to Instructors

Photoanalysis of a Family Photograph

Finding the Historical Context for the Family Photograph

Family Stories

Photoanalysis of the Marriage Photograph

How This Family History Project Has Been Researched

Connections to World History

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