History Puzzles is a learning framework for the teaching of historiography and exploring how historical interpretation evolves over time.

Students consider how historians’ questions, use of sources, and connection to historiographical trends influences their conclusions.

Educational worksheet on evaluating historians' questions about the War of 1812, with four puzzle-piece sections addressing effects, influence, winners, and divisions, including instructions for answering questions.

Learners are provided with a History Puzzle, a disassembled collection of historical interpretations, claims, sources, questions, and schools of historical thought.

Students work backwards to put each interpretation back together with its connected “pieces,” representing claims, sources, questions, and schools of historical thought.

Students complete the activity in pairs or small groups with each student assuming a specific role.

Each student is given a specific task during the strategy to engage them in each step of the process.

Three puzzle pieces with instructions for different group roles: Reader, Annotator, and Assembler, on a green textured surface.
Logo for History Puzzles by Source Squads featuring a leaf and circular border.

Each History Puzzle is connected to a lesson in the Source Squads Curriculum.

Through this, students learn the content through Source Squads or Document Duos, and then complete the History Puzzle as an extension of that lesson.