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Collaborative engagement in undergraduate history classrooms is often hindered by large-lecture environments and complex historical sources. Net.Create, an open-source network-analysis software tool, harnesses intuitive network creation and visualization to help students explore complex historical texts in large classrooms. Simultaneous data entry and network-analysis visualizations capitalize on the lecture setting of many undergraduate classrooms to help students collaboratively co-construct knowledge about a large corpus of data at both the individual local and historical-context level, facilitating discovery, discussion, and recreation of historical context in an interactive and engaging way. Our study demonstrates Net.Create’s role as a mediating tool that supported strong students in appropriating historical-context reconstruction as their object of activity and engaged weaker students in the initial stages of historical-context reconstruction.