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Teaching with the Library of Congress

Primary source sets from the Library’s online collections, as well as teaching skills.
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Help K-12 students start analyzing primary sources with this easy-to-use fillable PDF. Teaching, Teachers, Teaching Skills, Primary Sources, Analysis, Analyze, Student, Primary, Students
Teaching
Teachers
Teaching Skills
Primary Sources
Analysis
Analyze
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The Library’s Primary Source Analysis Tool
Help K-12 students start analyzing primary sources with this easy-to-use fillable PDF.
There’s one simple question that can help you decide. Videos, Resources, Textbook, Teacher, Political Cartoons
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Resources
Textbook
Teacher
Political Cartoons
What Makes a Primary Source a Primary Source?
There’s one simple question that can help you decide.
Quick tips from the Library of Congress to help you bring primary sources into your classroom. Classroom, Library Of Congress, Library, Sourcing
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Library Of Congress
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Getting Started with Primary Sources
Quick tips from the Library of Congress to help you bring primary sources into your classroom.
Take a ride through a century of transit with rich primary sources. Includes a teacher’s guide and graphic organizer. Guide, Teacher Guides, Century, Riding
Guide
Teacher Guides
Century
Riding
Transportation
Take a ride through a century of transit with rich primary sources. Includes a teacher’s guide and graphic organizer.
Lincoln’s rise in national politics. Includes Lincoln’s student sum book, speeches, correspondence with Stephen Douglas and others, campaign materials, and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856. Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Douglas, Stephen, Speech
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence
Lincoln’s rise in national politics. Includes Lincoln’s student sum book, speeches, correspondence with Stephen Douglas and others, campaign materials, and a map documenting the free and slave states in 1856.
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan, Wadsworth
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan
Wadsworth
American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of American authors in the nineteenth century, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Political cartoons paired with other historical documents let students explore the ways that cartoonists try to persuade their audience. Includes “Join or Die,” created by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War, as well as cartoons about World War I, child labor and presidential candidates in 1912. Public, Presidential Candidates, Debate, Historical Documents, Candidate, Presidential, Persuade
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Presidential Candidates
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Historical Documents
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Presidential
Persuade
Political Cartoons and Public Debates
Political cartoons paired with other historical documents let students explore the ways that cartoonists try to persuade their audience. Includes “Join or Die,” created by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War, as well as cartoons about World War I, child labor and presidential candidates in 1912.
Native American boarding schools and their efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education. Features photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons and maps. Native Americans, Films, Federal, Vintage, Vintage Photos, Native American Boarding Schools, Native American, American, Government
Native Americans
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Vintage Photos
Native American Boarding Schools
Native American
American
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Native American Boarding Schools
Native American boarding schools and their efforts to assimilate Native Americans through education. Features photos, early film footage, federal government reports, cartoons and maps.
Baseball, the American national pastime that crosses social boundaries. Sheet music, an early Edison film, baseball trading cards, and photographs show Americans from different backgrounds embracing the sport. Baseball, History, Baseball Trading Cards, Edison, Society
Baseball
History
Baseball Trading Cards
Edison
Society
Baseball Across a Changing Nation
Baseball, the American national pastime that crosses social boundaries. Sheet music, an early Edison film, baseball trading cards, and photographs show Americans from different backgrounds embracing the sport.
Children’s labor, education, and play around the year 1900. Includes images, films, and books. Especially suitable for early grades. Children, Play, Education
Children
Play
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Children's Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Children’s labor, education, and play around the year 1900. Includes images, films, and books. Especially suitable for early grades.
Explores the Civil War and the role of music during wartime. War, Music, Civilization
War
Music
Civilization
Civil War Music
Explores the Civil War and the role of music during wartime.
Conflict between abolition and slavery marked the 1850s, preceding the election of 1860 and the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and secession in maps, newspapers, political cartoons and song sheets. People, Declaration Of Independence, Chosen, Newspapers, Kansas
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Declaration Of Independence
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The Civil War: The Nation Moves Towards War, 1850-61
Conflict between abolition and slavery marked the 1850s, preceding the election of 1860 and the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and secession in maps, newspapers, political cartoons and song sheets.
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Civil War portraits in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Portrait, Portraits, Soldier, Teacher's Guide, Photographer
Portrait
Portraits
Soldier
Teacher's Guide
Photographer
Civil War Soldiers’ Portraits: The Liljenquist Family Collection
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Civil War portraits in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Create poems using words and phrases selected from primary source texts to retell the historical content. Includes text and images on topics as diverse as Helen Keller, Walt Whitman, women’s suffrage, and the Harlem Renaissance. Poetry, Found Poetry, Suffrage, Retelling, Harlem
Poetry
Found Poetry
Suffrage
Retelling
Harlem
Found Poetry: Retelling History through Poetry
Create poems using words and phrases selected from primary source texts to retell the historical content. Includes text and images on topics as diverse as Helen Keller, Walt Whitman, women’s suffrage, and the Harlem Renaissance.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights from early drafts into twentieth century interpretations of these founding documents. Includes newspaper articles, notes, and original documents, speeches and song lyrics. Bill Of Rights, Constitution, Senate, Newspaper Article
Bill Of Rights
Constitution
Senate
Newspaper Article
The Constitution
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights from early drafts into twentieth century interpretations of these founding documents. Includes newspaper articles, notes, and original documents, speeches and song lyrics.