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, images, maps, and firsthand accounts — 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 comprehension to analysis, and a teacher guide explains how the pieces fit together. 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 and grouped by subject — world history, US history, and religion and cultural history — so they slot into units you already teach. Singles and document-set bundles are both available. New DBQ sets are added by subject — check back as the collection grows.