Primary Source Spotlight: U.S. History by Time Period

Primary Source Spotlight: U.S. History by Time Period

Transatlantic Encounters & Colonial Beginnings Colonial North America American Revolution The Early Republic Territorial Expansion & Manifest Destiny Transformation in Antebellum America Civil War & Reconstruction Origins of the New South Western Expansion The U.S. & the World Around the Turn of the 20th Century Populism & Progressivism World War I The 1920s The Great…

Portrait of Geronimo kneeling holding gun

Primary Source Spotlight: Geronimo

Geronimo image set U.S. historical newspaper coverage of Geronimo 1870-1910 U.S. historical newspaper coverage of Geronimo and President Roosevelt 1905 Geronimo’s Story of his Life 1906 related newspaper article from The Oglala Light The Pursuit of the Apache Chief: A Story of the Campaign Against Geronimo 1920 When Geronimo Rode 1924 A Chiracahua Apache’s Account…

American Progress

Primary Source Spotlight: Western Expansion & Manifest Destiny

This set of primary sources and teaching resources focuses, primarily, on the time period 1800-1860. Western expansion stories from America’s Library Western expansion timeline (includes primary source activities) Primary source sets Primary source collections American migration timeline and maps (in English and Russian) The right of Nebraska, 1854 (sheet music) Key government documents related to territorial expansion…