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Montana The Magazine of Western History Discussion Guides Page


Articles from Montana The Magazine of Western History are great for use with middle school and high school students! To make teaching them easier, we are providing free links to articles along with discussion guides created by Montana teachers.


Selected articles from Winter 2024

“A Hotel and Its Novelist: Thomas Savage and Dillon’s Andrus Hotel”

“When Did People Arrive in Montana? An Excerpt from Land of Beginnings: The Archaeology of Montana’s First Peoples”

Montana: The Magazine of Western History Cover for the Winter 2024 issue.

Additional Montana The Magazine of Western History Articles

These articles do not have discussion guides but are great for student research.

Women’s History Articles published between 1951 and 2015  As part of the Montana HistoricalMontana: The Magazine of Western History Cover for the Summer 2014 issue. Society’s commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of non-Indigenous women’s suffrage in Montana, Montana The Magazine of Western History made all of the articles it published relating to women's history available for free download as part of the Montana Historical Society's Women's History project.

Montana and the Great War: Reading List  As part of the Montana Historical Society’s centennial commemoration of World War I, Montana The Magazine of Western History provided free access to articles it published relating to the war. (Reading list includes material from other publications as well).

African Americans in Montana and the West  In Summer 2020, Montana The Magazine of Western History published a free digital issue focused on Black experiences in the West.


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