Historical+Perspective

History is an account of events, people, ideas, and their interaction over time that can be interpreted through multiple perspectives. In order for students to understand the present and plan for the future, they must understand the past. Studying history engages students in the lives, aspirations, struggles, accomplishments, and failures of real people. Students need to think in an historical context in order to understand significant ideas, beliefs, themes, patterns and events, and how individuals and societies have changed over time in Kentucky, the United States, and the World.
 * Big Idea: Historical Perspective**

Useful Resources


 * National Archives (to access primary source documents)
 * Library of Congress (to access primary source documents)
 * The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History (to access historical documents, educator resources)
 * Kentucky Historical Society
 * The Filson Historical Society
 * Document Analysis forms (to use when analyzing different types of primary sources
 * [|Digital Docs in a Box] - Collections of primary source documents organized into categories
 * [|Docs Teach] - ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom