Historical thinking skills allow historians to better practice and interpret history. This series teaches students how to develop these skills to become better historians themselves.

This Learning Lab will guide students through the process of defining historical comparison and practicing employing strategies from an example dealing with four personalities living through Jim Crow in the late nineteenth century.

Comparison is when historians note the similarities and differences of individuals, events, and groups. They question how and why these similarities or differences impacted history or even the modern day.

Keywords: nmaahc, African, American, historical, thinking, skills, comparison, differences, similarities, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Madam C.J. Walker, Jim Crown, resistance, response, interpret, analyze