Reading Historically

Project Resources

Project Participant Created Lesson Plans

Library of Congress Resources

• Getting Started with Primary Sources

• Classroom Materials

• Teaching with the Library of Congress blog

• Read.gov

• Chronicling America 

• Inquiry Kits for Social Studies

Other Primary Source Sites

• National Archives

• OurDocuments

• DocsTeach

• World History Stuff

• 24 primary source archives you might have missed

• Google Arts & Culture

• Smithsonian History Explorer

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 

• Inquiry in the Upper Midwest

  • CRP videos, materials, and source sets

• Primary Sources and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - TPS Teacher Network

• Getting Started with Culturally Responsive Teaching - Edutopia

• Connecting Students to Culturally Relevant Texts

• Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors

• Google's Teach From Home Culturally Responsive Classrooms resources

Trade Books and Where to Find Them

• Library of Congress suggested books with aligned LOC resources

• National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Books

• We Need Diverse Books

• Decolonize your kids' bookshelf with these stories featuring characters of color

• 50 YA Black Authors You Need to Explore

• American Library Association

  • 2021 Notable Books

  • Past Notable Books

  • Best New Fiction for Young Adults

  • Newberry Award winners

  • Caldecott Award winners

  • Great Graphic Books for Teens

  • BLM Comics Reading List

• American Indian Library Association

• Multicultural and Social Justice Books for Children and Young Adults

• Anti-Defamation League's searchable book list of Books That Matter

Project Staff