We would love to partner with you to teach a unit or lesson utilizing primary sources. The Empire State Fluency Continuum is an interactive website providing downloadable and editable GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS to help you teach research skills, including primary sources. You can filter by standard or grade level.
Recommended Resources
Primary source sets focus on US History and are particularly helpful for teaching; filter by time period, movement, social issue, etc.
Primary source sets and lesson plans focus on US history
Primary source packets focusing on issues of Brooklyn history; search the whole collection here
List of remote resources for primary sources
More information IN PERSON than online, but you can still search the information online. Their location is quite close to GWHS.
More than 70,000 items cover 500 years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World to soldiers’ letters from World War II and Vietnam.
Archive of Brooklyn newspapers, including photographs
Search the online collection of the museum's collection. Also view the Activist exhibit online.
Search the online collection OR visit the Archives in New York City!
Court cases, arrest records, photos, etc.
Lesson plans and primary source sets for the Holocaust
Search the online collection OR visit their location in NYC.
