Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the selections in the Books That Shaped America online exhibition. The curator's note reads: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner was an immediate critical and financial success for its author, with more than 30 million copies in print to date. Harper Lee created one of the most enduring and heroic characters in all of American literature in Atticus Finch, the small-town lawyer who defended a wrongly accused black man. The book’s importance was recognized … [Read more...]
Browse TPS-Barat Content
Citizen U: Interdisciplinary Civics
Resources & lesson plans for
elementary, middle, high school
elementary, middle, high school
Resources by Theme
Click the arrows next to each theme to reveal the individual resource sets.
Follow TPS-Barat: @PSNTPS
My Tweets
Today in History
- 1800
President Adams approved $5,000 appropriation to purchase books for Congress. Check out our curated collection of LOC.gov resources related to the Library of Congress and its digitized book collection.
National Poetry Month
Celebrate with primary sources and teaching resources!
Citizen U News
Articles, projects, lessons, civics news and more. Check it out!
Favorite Twitter Feeds
Check out the best Twitter feeds for teaching with primary sources!
TPS PD Calendar
April 2019 |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
|
29
|
30
|
|||||
Voting & Elections in Early America
Check out this Google Arts & Culture online exhibit by
TPS-Barat & the Constitutional Rights Foundation!
TPS-Barat & the Constitutional Rights Foundation!
TPS Programs
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress, since 2004 TPS-Barat has provided free, engaging, inquiry-based learning materials that use Library primary sources to foster understanding and application of civics, literacy, history, math, science, and the arts.
The mission of the national Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational resources.
Learn more about Teaching with Primary Sources by visiting www.loc.gov/teachers.
The mission of the national Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational resources.
Learn more about Teaching with Primary Sources by visiting www.loc.gov/teachers.
Copyright © 2019 Barat Education Foundation
Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not
indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.