TPS Consortium Update May 2025

TPS Consortium Update May 2025

Get content you won’t find anywhere else—news, resources, PD + other opportunities & more—with this monthly curated collection of updates from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program and the TPS Consortium.  Click the image above to delve into the May Update. Then consider subscribing to this monthly newsletter.

The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma

Primary Source Spotlight: Hispanic Heritage

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Today in History: Federal Patent for Steamboat Awarded

Today in History: Federal Patent for Steamboat Awarded

Today in History–August 26–the Library of Congress features the awarding of a federal patent for the steamboat on this day in 1791 to two (!) men—John Fitch and James Rumsey—each who had devised different systems. Find out whose sketch of what is featured above and uncover more fascinating facts by visiting the Today in History section. Then, if you haven’t run out of…