Teaching with Primary Sources

Teaching with Primary Sources

What is a primary source?

The raw materials of history.

Primary sources provide firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic or question under investigation.

Public Domain Picture | Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson ...

Library of Congress

Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources

Primary Source Analysis Tool (Digital)

Primary Source Analysis Tool (PDF)

Teaching History

Teaching History website

High School Resources

EDSITEment

Student Activities

Smithsonian Institute, Washington. - New York Public Library ...

Smithsonian

Smithsonian History Explorer

Engaging Students with Primary Sources

Other Sources

South Carolinian Digital Collections

History Matters

National Archives---Document Analysis Worksheets

Yale Primary Sources

Stanford History Education Group

Harvard Visible Thinking

History Unfolded(US News and Holocaust)

LOC Primary Sources

Library of Congress Presentation

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