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ERIC Number: EJ254363
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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Gone to Graveyards, Everyone.
Rabadan, David
Social Education, v45 n7 p522-23 Nov-Dec 1981
Suggests ways in which social studies educators can use resources such as cemeteries and tombstones to enliven the study of history. Explains how analyzing tombstones can introduce one to historical research methodology. A case study is presented in which Civil War history is investigated by visits to cemeteries in the Adirondacks and to the National Cemetery at Fredericksburg. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History, Local History, Primary Sources, Research Methodology, Research Skills, Social Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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