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Introduction: Part 1 of 4 (Front cover plus Pages 1-9: 612KB) •  Our Documents at Work in the Nation’s Classrooms: The Our Documents Initiative in its Third Year •  The People’s Vote: Results Across the Nation and in the Classroom

Working with Our Documents: Part 2 of 4 (Pages 10-32: 829KB) •  Understanding Our Documents: A Competition for Students •  Teaching Our Documents: A Lesson Competition for Educators •  List of the 100 Milestone Documents •  Tapping into Local Repositories to Teach Our Documents •  Introducing Students to Primary Source Documents •  The 1965 Voting Rights Act

Lessons that Work: Our Documents 2004 Winning Lesson Plans: Part 3 of 4 (Pages 33-54: 2,107KB) •  The Legacy of Indian Removal (1830-1840) •  Encountering the Plains: African-American Homesteading on the Central Plains (1870s)

More About Our Documents: Part 4 of 4 (Pages 55-76 plus back cover: 357KB) •  Electronic Preservation and Access: A Delicate Balance •  Selected Bibliography

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