history/culture strategies

Teach using places [placenames; objects, too?]
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/whyplaces.htm
--cf, features, http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/features.htm
 
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/media.html
Life Histories, Object-based Learning, Photo-based Learning