In social studies classrooms around the world, teachers use documents and images as a daily part of their curriculum. History is built on the analysis of first-hand accounts. The interpretation of the meaning behind the words and images is archived for modern-day historians to retell stories. While teaching high school history, I wanted to continually engage my students in this type of thinking and self-directed learning, allowing the students to become historians in my classroom. In order to accomplish this task, I made it a goal to use as many different sources and documents in my classroom as possible. With this task came an amazing waste of paper! I…