Finding Resources: LOC.gov Primary Source Sets & Teacher Guides

You’ll find nearly 100 primary source sets with Teacher Guides in the Teacher’s section of LOC.gov. Each set contains a carefully curated selection of diverse primary sources accompanied by information for teachers on how to use the set and help students analyze the sources within it. As you can see from the image above, there is a handy search bar to help you easily conduct a keyword search. Use the links below to jump to select groupings of the LOC.gov primary source sets and related PSN resource sets.

All primary source sets

Primary source sets by time period

• The American Revolution, 1763 to 1783
• The New Nation, 1783 to 1815
• National Expansion and Reform, 1815 to 1860
• Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861 to 1877
• Rise of Industrial America, 1876 to 1900
• Progressive Era to New Era, 1900 to 1929
• Great Depression & World War II, 1929 to 1945
• Postwar United States, 1945 to Present

State primary source sets (includes the District of Columbia)

Related PSN resource sets

• U.S. History by Time Period
• State Primary Source Sets & Teaching Resources
• Theme-based Resource Sets
  • Culture
  • Geography
  • History
  • Military Events
  • Sports
  • Subjects

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