Abraham Lincoln: Rise to National Prominence
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring Abraham Lincoln and his national role. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Speeches, correspondence, campaign materials…
Alexander Hamilton
Manuscripts, images, and historic newspapers document the life and accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Manuscripts, images, and historic newspapers document…
Baseball Across a Changing Nation
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring baseball and the various ways it was experienced by Americans between the close of the Civil War and the beginning of WWII. This…
Charts and Graphs
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring charts and graphs. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Date:1900
Child Labor
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring child labor. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Child labor and the reform movement opposed to…
Date:1893
Children's Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring Children's Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Date:1890
The Civil Rights Movement
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the U.S. civil rights movement. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photos, newspaper articles, interviews, and…
Civil War Music
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring historical perspectives about the American Civil War. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Date:1861
Civil War Photographs: New Technologies and New Uses
Photographs that help to document the photographic technologies used during the Civil War. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Date:1860
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…
Date:1860
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,…
The Constitution
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the United States Constitution. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Dust Bowl Migration
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945). This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Date:1930
Ecology
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring ecology. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Found Poetry
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring found poetry and the ability to retell history from one's own perspective. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and…
The Great Migration
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Great Migration. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. The Great Migration documented in photographs, manuscripts,…
Date:1916
The Harlem Renaissance
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Harlem Renaissance. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
Immigration Challenges for New Americans
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the topic of immigration from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide…
The Industrial Revolution in the United States
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Industrial Revolution and its effects in the United States. This set also includes a Teacher s Guide with historical context and teaching…
Date:1876
Informational Text
Personal narratives, newspaper articles, posters, broadsides, speeches, memes, movies and other artifacts that can serve as informational texts for students to analyze.
Date:1824
Inventions and Innovations
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring how various inventions and innovations came into being. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photographs, prints,…
Date:1780
The Inventive Wright Brothers
A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the contributions of the Wright brothers to flight. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.