Our panel, tentatively titled ‘Interactive Approaches to Teaching Twentieth-Century German History’ is a hands-on, demo-based panel in which presenters teach to ‘students’ (audience members) and model student-centered pedagogical techniques in fifteen-minute blocks. While previous teaching strategy panels featured at the AHA have focused on presenters exposing audience members to vast arrays of sources, our panel is centrally concerned with the experiential—particularly with modeling effective strategies for teaching undergraduates how to engage with and analyze primary source materials. To quote panelist Jane Freeland, “I've found students are often more engaged in source work when we are working with sources I've found in my own research. I think this approach is fruitful because it both gives the students a glimpse ‘behind the curtain’ at the historian’s craft and imbues them with the sense that they are being taught by an ‘expert.’” Our panel posits that providing students with vital portals into the past via primary source materials allows them to more deeply connect with the intellectual work of ‘doing history.’ Ultimately, students come to learn that the meanings of even well-studied historical events are often contested from numerous directions. Panelists will teach on a wide range of topics, including: recovering queer voices from the archives, post-colonial approaches to understanding German colonialism in East Africa, and the meanings of domestic abuse in twentieth-century German history.