Primary Source Spotlight: Transportation
Primary source sets
- Transportation primary source set with teacher’s guide
- Transportation image set
- Transportation maps
- Films & webcasts related to transportation
- Oral histories related to transportation
- Life history mentioning transportation
- Historical texts related to transportation
- Historical newspaper coverage: modes of transportation
PSN curated primary source collections
- Air Balloons & Airships
- America’s Roadways
- B&O Railroad
- Bicycles
- Cable Cars
- C&O Canal
- Erie Canal
- First American Automobile Race
- Rails & Robbers
- Transcontinental Railroad Completed
- World Transportation Commission
- Charles Lindbergh
- Designer Raymond Loewy
- Nellie Bly Circles the Globe
- Wright Brothers First Flight
Free to Use & Reuse image sets
Picture to Go blog posts
Teaching resources
- Around the World in 1896
- Growth and Decline: Impacts of the Transportation Revolution
- How Transportation Transformed America: Going to Market
- Abraham Lincoln Primary Source Activity Book: transportation page
- Trains and Travel: Then and Now
- The Trolley Transforms Transit: A Moment in the History of Transportation
- What Do Trains Do? Exploring Local History through Maps
- Guided primary source analysis activities