Integrating Technology: Primary Source Crowdsourcing Campaigns

By the People is a Library of Congress project that invites anyone to transcribe, review, and tag digitized images of manuscripts and typed materials from the Library’s collections. This is a great literacy activity for students. Come check it out by clicking the links below!

By the People Campaigns

• People
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Anna E. Dickinson
  • Letters to Lincoln
  • Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
  • Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
  • Branch Rickey: Changing the Game
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Mary Church Terrell: Advocate for African Americans and Women]
  • Walt Whitman at 200
• Topics
  • Civil War Soldiers: “Disabled Not Disheartened
  • Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents
  • Suffrage: Women Fight for the Right to Vote

Resources for Educators includes teaching ideas and campaign-specific resources

Transcription Parties

• How to host a transcribe-a-thon (PDF)
• “Getting started” presentation (PPT)
• “Quick Tips” instructions hand out (PDF)

LOC By the People NCTE Transcribe-a-thon webinar recording for teachers

Crowdsourcing the Social Studies article from Social Education March/April 2019