Upfront's time machine.

• Author: Zack, Ian
• Position: Teacher's Guide

Dear Teachers,

Do you ever wish you and your students could travel back in time to some pivotal moment in history? Well, you can! Every issue of Upfront includes at least one primary-source text that connects with our Times Past article to transport your students to the time and place where history was made. Primary sources capture the flavor of the period in which they were written, and they often provide compelling details that only eyewitnesses to history could know.

If you've been using our primary sources all year, you already know how valuable they are in sparking lively classroom debates. If not, now is a great time to give them a try. On page 13 of this Teacher's Guide (and online under Teaching Resources), you'll find One Tragedy, Two Voices, a lesson featuring excerpts from two eyewitness accounts of the 1970 shootings at Kent State University during a protest against the Vietnam War. The narratives--one from a student, the other from an Ohio National...