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Posted November 17, 2025
What were the causes of inflation from 2020 to 2024? Evaluating cause-and-effect against evidence.
Posted September 1, 2025
Free Lesson! Evaluating sources on slavery in the antebellum period according to the PROP criteria.
Posted September 15, 2025
Free Lesson! Evaluating sources about the antebellum period according to the PROP criteria.
Posted September 21, 2025
Free Lesson! Did the frontier shape American character? Evaluating cause-and-effect, Part 1.
Posted September 29, 2025
Free Lesson! Did other frontiers shape the character of those people? Evaluating cause-and-effect, Part 2.
Posted October 6, 2025
Free Lesson! Why do democracies sometimes fall to autocracies? A survey of 14 countries. Evaluating cause-and-effect.
Posted October 12, 2025
Free Lesson! Evaluating historical sources according to PROP on the causes of the Civil War and on reporting in the Civil War.
Posted October 20, 2025
Guide to Evaluating News Sources. Check out the other guides while you are there!
Posted October 27, 2025
How effective are checks and balances in preventing autocratic takeover?
Posted November 3, 2025
Will you renew the Sedition Act in 1801? Decision-making problem.
Posted November 10, 2025
Why did democracy develop in British colonial America? Evaluating causes by analyzing Spanish, French and British island colonies.