Using Primary Sources

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A short video demonstrates a five-step method for analyzing primary sources.

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Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your community?

Two blues songs recorded in 1939

The creators of the Public Broadcasting Series (PBS), Antiques Roadshow developed this guide to integrating material culture into the classroom.

National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images reveal what historical objects tell us about history.

What is a secondary source? How do you find and analyze them?

Provides students with a good definition of primary sources and methods for locating and approaching them.

Find worksheets for written documents, photographs, cartoons, posters, maps, artifacts, motion pictures, and sound recordings.

Get the most out of life histories, objects, and photographs.

Familiarizing yourself with the current events of the past.