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HistoraEDU
History worth investigating.
Practical social studies resources that help students read closely, examine historical evidence, and explain their thinking.
Created for middle and high school social studies classrooms, with featured lessons for grades 7–8.
Bring historical thinking into the lesson.
Read closely
Build context through focused historical readings and questions that connect details to explanations.
Examine evidence
Look carefully at primary sources and photographs, distinguish observations from inferences, and consider a source’s limits.
Explain a judgment
Use evidence to support claims about causes, consequences, and the choices people made.
Featured resources
Berlin Airlift
Reading comprehension and primary-source evidence activities for grades 7–8, with historical photographs and teacher guidance.
View the Berlin Airlift resource on TPT
Korean War
Explore containment and the conflict’s unresolved consequences through a historical reading and archival photo analysis.
View the Korean War resource on TPT
Space Race
Connect Cold War competition, scientific achievement, and the limits of photographic evidence through reading and NASA archival images.
The HistoraEDU journal
Historical evidence, meaningful questions and practical ideas for history and social studies teaching.
The Space Race: achievement and power
Use NASA photographs and mission records to explore what Cold War achievements can—and cannot—prove.
Read the Space Race teaching guide →
The Korean War: what could containment achieve?
Help students evaluate containment through a clear sequence, archival photographs and the armistice.
Read the Korean War teaching guide →
The Berlin Airlift: supplying a city
Follow the supply problem, examine historical photographs and test a claim about containment.
Read the Berlin Airlift teaching guide →
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