Primary Source Learning: Monthly Heritage & Identity Celebrations

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Below is a list with links to Library resource sets, featuring both primary and secondary sources, and teaching resources that coincide with monthly heritage and identity celebrations. So mark those special months but don’t stop there. Instead, come back to these resources time and again to give voice to diverse perspectives and celebrate inclusion all year round with primary sources!

January

International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27

February

Black History & Heritage: resource set and teaching resources

March

Women’s History: resource set and teaching resources

April

Poetry month: resource set and teaching resources

May

Asian American Pacific Islander History & Heritage: resource set and teaching resources

Jewish American History & Heritage: resource set

June

Pride month: LGBTQ+ Resource set

July

Disability Pride month: disability resource set

August

Back to school: sports & subjects resource sets

September

September 11, 2001: resource set and teaching resources

U.S. Constitution Day: resource set and teaching resources

September/October

Hispanic/LatinX History & Heritage: resource set and teaching resources

October

Disability History: teaching resources

November

Native American History & Heritage: resource set and teaching resources

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