Windows to the Past : Postcards and Visual Literacy / Joanne Archer -- Approaching the Book as an Artifact / Kelli Hansen -- Our School Song : Using Sound Recordings & Sheet Music to Explore ...

In this lesson, students view an excerpt from the Rogue Book that introduces a 1909 book featuring hundreds of clippings for lost and wanted men from the early 20th century. They analyze pages from ...

Library provider and publisher Gale has added to its Primary Sources research platform six new archives focusing on the stories and histories of global LGBTQ+ communities, women, Native Americans, and ...

Students of one Teaching with Primary Sources workshop participant forged connections with contemporary artists and their work in an assignment using the Archives of American Art’s Pandemic Oral ...

What is a primary source? Primary sources are direct, first-hand accounts that describe a particular time period or event. Examples of primary sources include published materials (books, magazine and ...

This post was updated June 4 at 12:48 a.m. Most people may not consider an 18th century Chinese wood block a book. Yet Professor Matthew Fisher’s new English capstone seminar challenges students to ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are good ways to have students learn about—and use—primary sources? Primary sources can be great tools to inspire students to engage with history. They can also ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are good ways to have students learn about—and use—primary sources? Part One featured suggestions from Donna L. Shrum, Kevin Thomas Smith, Sarah Cooper, and ...