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provides lessons, teaching guides, best practices, and other resources for teaching history. See videos on "what is historical thinking," teaching history in elementary school, and the digital classroom. Find primary sources and reviews of more than 1,000 websites and primary document resources. Search by topic and grade level. (TeachingHistory.org, Department of Education)
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17th-century America was a very religious world. And people believed fervently in God, and along with that was a belief in the Devil. And so, what being a witch meant to people in the 17th century was that somebody--usually a woman, but not always--had signed a contract with the Devil. |
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