Primary Source Learning: Hispanic Points of View

Lessons

• The Huexotzinco Codex
• Drake’s West Indian Voyage 1588-1589
• Cesar Chavez & Good Citizenship
• Dolores Huerta
  • Collaborating to Affect Change (elementary)
  • Building Coalitions to Affect Change (middle school)
  • Inspiring Civic Responsibility (high school)
• Media & Migrant Laborers Perspectives

Guided Primary Source Analyses

• Bank note explorer vignettes
• Community & Teamwork
• Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos
• Los sueños de las posadas
• El Mosquito Americano

Primary Source Sets with Teacher Guides

• Hispanic Exploration in America
• Mexican American Migrations and Communities

Timely Connections

• Border Spaces Across Time
• Immigrant Soldiers

Blog posts

• Creating Communities and Building Collections One Conversation at a Time select primary sources and analysis questions from Folklife Today
• Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts about Hispanic Americans

Collection Connections

• Hispano Music and Culture from the Northern Rio Grande
• Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
• The South Texas Border, 1900-1920 (search for items via the University of Texas at Austin collection)
• Spain, the United States and the American Frontier
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

Exploring the Early Americas Interactive Presentations

• Reading Pre-Columbian Artifacts
• Recording [Mayan] History
• Tortuguero Box
• Conquest of Mexico Paintings
• The Buccaneers of America
• Heavens and Earth
• Waldseemüller Maps
• Historia Naturae

More resources

• La Familia (The Family) epic community poem led by Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
• “The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon”
• Primary Source Spotlight: Hispanic Heritage