The FFC exhibit contains documents which can be looked at multiple ways.
Primary sources give surprising insights into history.
This aspect of the study of documents is best illustrated to students by starting with a concept and asking students to apply that concept to a variety of sources. Following is a series of concepts which may be used individually or collectively for deeper study of the issues the documents raise. This approach is more appropriate for upper level classes which analyze evidence to create conceptual understanding. This requires students to identify from a variety of documents the inherent theme. The theme emerges from some surprising avenues.