DBQs & Primary Source Sets

Document-based questions put real historical sources in front of students and ask them to think like historians. These DBQ and primary-source sets pair excerpted documents — speeches, letters, engravings, official acts, and data tables — with guiding questions and a writing prompt that asks students to build an argument from evidence. Each set is classroom-ready: the documents are trimmed to a usable length, the questions scaffold from sourcing to corroboration, and a teacher key explains how the pieces fit together and where to cut if you're short on time. They print on standard US Letter paper and work for a single class period or a multi-day source-analysis unit. Sets are anchored to topics in the existing history catalog, so they slot into units you already teach. US History sets are up first; world history and religion and cultural history follow as the collection grows.