Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress
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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.
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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
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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...
- Date: 1954
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The Grapes of Wrath: Voices from the Great Depression Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the lives of migrant workers in California during the Great Depression.
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The Great Depression in North Carolina: Experiences of the People Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the degree to which the Depression/New Deal amended the economic destruction of the Civil War.
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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
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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...
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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.
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LGBTQ Activism and Contributions A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring LGBTQ Activism and Contributions. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photos, film footage, newspaper articles, interviews,...
- Date: 1865
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Natural Disasters A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring natural disasters. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.
- Date: 1871
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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.
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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.
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Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the struggles individual veterans had as they worked to serve their country in uniform. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical...
- Date: 1941
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Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the personal stories of American war veterans and civilian workers who supported them. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context...
- Date: 1941
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Women in Science and Technology A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring women's contributions to science and technology. This set also includes a Teachers Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions. Photos, film footage, newspaper...
- Date: 1888