Themed Source Sets
     
  Collections of individual primary sources specifically selected for working with students.  
     
     
 
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Assimilation through Education
  3. Astronomy
  4. Baseball: Across a Divided Society
  5. Civil War Music
  6. Constitution
  7. Dust Bowl Migration
  8. Emancipation Proclamation
  9. Found Poetry
  10. Hispanic Exploration
  11. Immigration Challenges for New Americans
  12. The Industrial Revolution in the United States
  13. The Inventive Wright Brothers
  1. Jamestown
  2. Japanese American Internment, World War II
  3. Jim Crow in America
  4. Maps From The World Digital Library
  5. The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
  6. The New Deal
  7. Thanksgiving
  8. Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project
  9. Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation
  10. Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads
  11. Woman's Suffrage
  12. Women Workers During World War II
 
     
Lesson Plans
     
  Access lesson plans using primary sources from the Library of Congress by topic, era, or
state standards.		  
     
Themed Link Sets
     
  Themed collections of links to digital resources from various sections of the Library of Congress website.  
     
     
 
  1. African American History & Culture
  2. Asian Pacific American Heritage
  3. Baseball
  4. Chicago & Illinois
  5. CPS Social Studies Resources
  6. Conservation & Environment
  7. The Constitution
  8. Hispanic Heritage
  9. Holidays
  1. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  2. Native Americans
  3. Poetry
  4. Science & Technology
  5. U.S. Government & Elections
  6. U.S. Presidents
  7. Women Leaders
  8. Women's History
  9. World History Resources
 
     
Time Period Link Sets
     
  Collections of links, organized by time period in U.S. history, to digital resources from various sections of the Library of Congress website.  
     
     
 
  1. Transatlantic Encounters & Colonial Beginnings
  2. Colonial North America
  3. American Revolutionary Era
  4. The Early Republic
  5. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny
  6. Transformation in Antebellum America
  7. Civil War & Reconstruction
  8. Origins of the New South
  9. Western Expansion
  10. Industrial America Around the Turn of the 20th Century
  11. Urban Society Around the Turn of the 20th Century
  12. Populism & Progressivism
  13. The Emergence of America as a World Power
  14. The New Era: 1920s
  15. The Great Depression & the New Deal
  16. World War II
  17. The Home Front During World War II
  18. The Cold War
  19. The 1950s
  20. The 1960s
  21. Politics & Economics Towards the End of the 20th Century
  22. Society & Culture Towards the End of the 20th Century
  23. The U.S. & the World in the 21st Century
 
     
     
 
Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912, digital id: cph 3g05585, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
     
 
Indian court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 : Pueblo turtle dancers from an Indian painting, New Mexico / Siegriest., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 		 
     
     
 
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. "Egypt. Village and pyramids during the flood-time." Between 1890 and 1900. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. 		 
     
     
 
Hintermeister, Hy. The foundation of American government. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. LC-USZC4-2541 		 
     
     
 
Telnaes, Ann. "Network sheep and war." February 14, 2003. Humors Edge: Cartoons by Telnaes. Library of Congress Exhibition.		  
     
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