Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish between their factual and fictional accounts.
Immigration and Migration: Today and During the Great Depression
Students use Library of Congress primary sources and interviews with parents, historical photographs, films, and documents to compare the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those of people living through the Great…
Immigration and Oral History
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to to gain an understanding of how to identify and interpret primary historical sources, specifically oral histories.
New Deal Programs: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the circumstances and lives of those who endured the Great Depression and received relief from New Deal programs.
Oral History and Social History
Students use Library of Congress primary sources to understand the genuine experience of oral history in order to appreciate the process of historiography using the topic of immigration.