Put three common Civil War myths on trial—“It was about states’ rights,” “The North fought for racial equality,” and “Most Southerners owned slaves”—and make students use real evidence to decide what actually holds up. In this document-based stations activity, students rotate through three evidence sets to test widely repeated claims about the Civil War. At each station, they analyze secession documents and the Cornerstone Speech, examine northern racial laws, and calculate census-based data on