Historical context and ideas for teaching with specific Library of Congress primary source collections.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
- The Aaron Copland Collection, ca. 1900-1990
summary only - Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
summary and teaching resources - The African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the Ohio Historical Society
summary and teaching resources - African American Odyssey
summary and teaching resources - African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
summary and teaching resources - African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University
summary only - After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews
Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
summary and teaching resources - Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
summary and teaching resources - The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
summary and teaching resources - America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
summary only - America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
summary and teaching resources - America
from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945
summary and teaching resources - America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
summary and teaching resources - America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862
summary and teaching resources - American English Dialect Recordings from The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection
summary only - An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
summary and teaching resources - American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library
summary and teaching resources - American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
summary and teaching resources - American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the Harvard Graduate School of Design
summary and teaching resources - American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
summary and teaching resources - American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940
summary and teaching resources - American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
summary only - The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
summary and teaching resources - An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
summary and teaching resources - The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
summary and teaching resources - American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources
summary only - Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner , 1935-1955
summary and teaching resources - Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
summary and teaching resources - The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands
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B
- Band Music from the Civil War Era
summary only - Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
summary and teaching resources - Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
summary and teaching resources - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
summary and teaching resources - Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
summary and teaching resources - Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present
summary and teaching resources - By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
summary and teaching resources - By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
summary and teaching resources - By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
summary and teaching resources - By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
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C
- "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
summary and teaching resources - California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties. Collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell
summary and teaching resources - The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925
summary and teaching resources - Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
summary only - A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
summary and teaching resources - Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
summary and teaching resources - The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
summary and teaching resources - The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
summary and teaching resources - A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C.
Reynolds Papers
summary and teaching resources - Civil War Maps
summary and teaching resources - Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
summary and teaching resources - Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
summary and teaching resources - Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
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D
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection
summary only - Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
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E
- Early Virginia Religious Petitions
summary only - Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
summary and teaching resources - The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
summary only - Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
summary only - The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
summary and teaching resources
F
- Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
summary only - Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress
summary only - The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
summary and teaching resources - First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
summary and teaching resources - Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
summary and teaching resoucres - France in America
summary and teaching resources - The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
summary and teaching resources - Freedom’s Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
summary only - From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
summary and teaching resources - Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
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G
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
summary and teaching resources
H
- The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
summary only - Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
summary only - Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
summary only - History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
summary and teaching resources - The Hotchkiss Map Collection
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I
- "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
summary and teaching resources - Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
summary and teaching resources - Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
summary and teaching resources - The Irving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962
summary only - Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
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J
- The James Madison Papers at the Library of Congress
summary and teaching resoucres
K
- The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
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L
- The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
summary and teaching resources - The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989
summary only - Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
summary only - The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
summary and teaching resources - Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
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M
- Map Collections
summary and teaching resources - Mapping the National Parks
summary and teaching resources - Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870
summary and teaching resources - Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West
summary only - Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
summary and teaching resources - The Moldenhauer Archives
summary only - Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
summary only - Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820-1860
summary and teaching resources - Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
summary and teaching resources
N
- The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
summary and teaching resources - Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures: 1913-1919
summary and teaching resources - The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
summary and teaching resources - The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
summary and teaching resources - The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections
summary and teaching resources - "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
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O
- Omaha Indian Music
summary only - Origins of American Animation
summary and teaching resources
P
- Panoramic Maps
summary and teaching resources - Parallel Histories: Spain, United States and the American Frontier
summary and teaching resources - Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
summary and teaching resources - Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
summary and teaching resources - Poet at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection
summary and teaching resources - Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States
summary only - Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
summary and teaching resources - Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
summary and teaching resources - Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives
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Q
- Quilts
and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996
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R
- Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
summary and teaching resources - Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
summary only - Rochambeau Map Collection
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S
- Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919
summary only - Selected Civil War Photographs
summary and teaching resources - Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy
summary only - Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection
summary only - September 11 Documentary Project
summary and teaching resources - Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
summary and teaching resources - Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1920
summary only - The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
summary and teaching resources - Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
summary and teaching resources - Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939
summary only - The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
summary and teaching resources - The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
summary and teaching resources - "Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
summary and teaching resources - Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
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T
- Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991
summary and teaching resources - Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
summary only - Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
summary only - The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
summary and teaching resources - Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920
summary and teaching resources - Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
summary and teaching resources - Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
summary and teaching resources
U
V
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
summary only - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
summary and teaching resources - Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
summary and teaching resources
W
- Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
summary and teaching resources - Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
summary and teaching resoucres - Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890
summary and teaching resources - William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
summary and teaching resoucres - Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
summary and teaching resources - Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950
summary and teaching resources - Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
summary and teaching resources - World War II Military Situation Map Collection
summary only - Working
in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
summary only - The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress
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