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Primary Source Spotlight: Bicycles
Free to Use and Reuse: Bicycles More Bicycle-related images Bicycling maps Bicycling films Bicycle sheet music Uncle Josh on a bicycle song recording “Shall Women Ride the Bicycle?” Elizabeth Cady Stanton [Mrs. Larson’s [bicycle] Story] oral history “A brilliant idea: a comedy sketch” 1897 satirical commentary on gender identity and the liberation felt and practiced […]
TPS Spotlight: Minnesota Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) leads the Inquiry in the Upper Midwest (IUM) project, which delivers professional development for teachers in Minnesota and Wisconsin and primary-source based curriculum resources for teachers throughout the country, with a particular focus on inquiry, primary sources and culturally relevant pedagogy. View their archived professional development webinars and stay connected […]
Citizen U Bulletin: Volume 1, Issue 10
Bulletin Volume 1, Issue 10 CIVICS IN ACTION Citizen U Weaving civics across grades and disciplines Click the links to access, use and rate Featured Lessons: Political Parties The Formation of Political Parties In this lesson from the Democracy Project, students work in groups to investigate a case study using primary sources to help […]
Timely Connections: Frederick Douglass & the Emancipation Memorial
Amid calls for removal of the Emancipation Memorial, also called the Freedmen’s Monument, in Washington D.C. and a replica of it in Boston, Washington Post reporter DaNeen L. Brown considers the statue and takes a look back at a speech made by Frederick Douglass at the D.C. unveiling ceremony on April 14, 1876. In the speech, Douglass […]
World Spotlight: Croatia
Croatia primary source set from the World Digital Library Country profile: Croatia BBC Croatia timeline BBC Croatia images Croatia maps Service in Croatia: U.S. veteran oral histories Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection interviews mentioning Croatia Croatian American oral histories & song recordings More Croatian song recordings Croatia books, reports and other texts (English & Croatian) U.S. historical newspaper articles mentioning Croatia […]
TPS Spotlight: Collaborative for Educational Services
Since 2010, the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program at the Collaborative for Educational Services has offered free and low cost workshops and support to K-12 teachers throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and nationally via online courses on a variety of topics, including Disability History. Participants learn to work with and practice […]
World Spotlight: Guatemala
Guatemala primary source set from the World Digital Library Country profile: Guatemala BBC Guatemala timeline BBC Guatemala images Guatemala maps Service in Guatemala: U.S. veteran oral histories Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection interviews mentioning Guatemala Manuscripts, Performance style, Choreometrics, sources, Correspondence and notes by culture, Guatemala Alan Lomax Collection Guatemala worker oral history recordings Working the Waterfront, New Bedford, […]
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