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There is considered the problem of usage of the visual sources at the history lessons for the development of motivation, cognitive activity and critical thinking of schoolchildren in the conditions of active introduction of information technologies. The possibilities of the political poster as an information resource on the pages of the history textbook are outlined; an algorithm of analysis of the political poster from the positions of a historical source is created; an example of usage of this algorithm in the educational practice is given. There are distinguished the directions of the methodical work of teachers with the visual historical sources at the history lessons.