Social Studies in the Spotlight: Inquiry, Primary Sources, and Informational Reading, 7-12

Resources by Theme

Advertising and Consumerism

Primary Sources
- 1924 - Truth in Fabric and Misbranding (bill)
- 1924 - National Consumer League Papers (campaign handbook)
- 1925 - Enforcement of Food Law (letter) from Harvey Wiley to President Coolidge
- 1925 - Truth-in-Advertising Work Is Achieving a Notable Success (speech) by Herbert Hoover published in Associated Advertising
- 1925 - National Better Business Bureau Replaces Vigilance Committee (article)
- 1926 - Madam C. J. Walker Mfg Co Inc (magazine advertisement): Black woman business owner
- 1927 - National Thrift Week (article)
Teacher Resources
Resources
- Ad Access

Authors of the Nineteenth Century

Resources
- American Authors in the Nineteenth Century: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stowe, and Poe

Baseball

Primary Sources
- 1887 - Michael J. "King" Kelly (photograph)
- 1958 - Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower (letter)
Primary Source Set
- Baseball Americana (flickr photo set)
Resources
Nonfiction Books
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (elementary/middle school)
Graphic Nonfiction
- Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm and Richard Tommaso
Historical Fiction Books
- Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings by Karen Steinberger (webquest) (middle school)
Interactives
- Baseball and Social Change

Civics and Government

Primary Sources

1941-1945 - This is America... Where You Vote as You Please
2013 - Pandemc and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act

Resources
Graphic Nonfiction History
- The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey and Aaron McConnell
Interactives

Civil Rights Movement and Racism

Primary Sources
- 1868 - 14th Amendment (transcription): citizenship, due process, equal protection
- 1870 - 15th Amendment (document): voting rights, discrimination
- 1894 - Departure Statement of Wong Kim Ark (departure statement)
- 1896 - Discharge of a San Francisco Judge in the Matter of Wong Kim Ark (discharge)
- 1903 - The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois (essay): education for blacks, plight of blacks
- 1939 - Negro going in colored entrance of movie house (photo)
- 1942 - Basic and Advanced Flying School for Negro Air Corps (photo)
- 1942 - A Step in the Right Direction (cartoon)
- 1944 - First Negro Waves to be Commissioned (photo)
- 1944 - American Negro Nurses (photo)
- 1953 - Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson in Japan (photo)
- 1954 - Brown vs. Board Education (court decision): segregation
- 1955 - Police Report on Arrest of Rosa Parks (police report)
- 1957 - Couple Protesting Desegregation (photo)
- 1958 - Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower (letter)
- 1960 - Heed their Rising Voices (advertisement)
- 1963 - Civil Rights March on Washington DC, Martin Luther King Jr. (photo)
- 1963 - Civil Rights March on Washington DC, Wide Angle View (photo)
- 1964 - Civil Rights March on Washington DC, protesters (photo)
- 1963 - Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King (letter): Civil Rights movement, civil disobedience, racial injustice.
- 1964 - Civil Rights Act (act): civil rights movement
- 1965 - Voting Rights Act (act): voting rights, civil rights movement
- 1965 - Statement of Congressman John Conyers Jr. on Voting Act (witness statement)
- 1965 - Telegram to Martin Luther King, Jr. (telegram)
- 1965 - Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act (photo)
- 1965 - Voting Rights Act (act): voting rights, civil rights movement
- 1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson nominating Thurgood Marshall as Supreme Court Justice (letter)
- 1969 - Subcommittee on Labor by Cesar Chavez (speech): labor issues
- 1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875 (act)
- 1907 - Jim Crow Law (newspaper article)
- 1972 - Equal Rights Amendment (amendment): equal rights, women's movement
- 1990 - Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (act): equal rights, disabilities
- 1995 - Constitutional Equality Amendment (CEA): equal rights, women's movement
Primary Source Sets
- Hyde County School Boycott (slide show)
- Little Rock Nine (photo collection)
- Plessy vs Ferguson (Jim Crow Laws) (newspaper articles)
Teaching Resources
- Library of Congress
- Teacher Domain
  - Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook (documents)
  - Audrey Hendricks Video (personal perspective)
    A Class Divided (interview)
  - Bayard Marshall (1962) (documents)
  - Concerned White Citizens of Alabama Scrapbook
  - Constance Baker Motley (interview)
  - Colonel Stone Johnson Video (personal perspective)
  - Desegration Mandate: Jefferson County, AL (court order)
  - Documenting Brown: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Collection
  - Eleventh Commandment Flyer
  - Ku Klux Klan Flyers
  - March on Washington Flyers
Resources
- Civil Rights Movement in America (interactive timeline)
Nonfiction
- Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connors by Larry Dane Brimmer
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (elementary/middle school)
- Drama of African-American History: The Rise of Jim Crow by James Haskins and Kathleen Benson
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
- Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum
- The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial: a Headline Court Case by Harvey Fireside
- We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson (young adult)
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The African-American Struggle Against Discrimination, 1865-1954 by Richard Wormser
- Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright
- Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers (young adult)
- An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin (high school)
- The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman (elementary/middle school)
- When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan
Graphic Nonfiction
- Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm and Richard Tommaso (sample pages)
Historical Fiction
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (elementary)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (adult)
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (middle school)
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (adult)
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (elementary/middle school)
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (adult): racism
- Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (elementary)
- Witness by Karen Hesse (takes place in 1924)
Web-based Resources
- Freedom Riders from PBS American Experience
Interactives
- Reconsidering Brown
- Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian
Activities
- We Shall Overcome - DocsTeach

Clothing and Fashion

Primary Sources
- 1861 - Drawing of Improvements in Hoop Skirts (patent drawing)
Primary Source Set
- 1950s - Millinery Monday (photo): hats
- Hats

Entertainment, Leisure Activities, and the Arts

Primary Sources
- 1910 - Where the boys spend their money (photo)
- 1910-1915 - Auto polo (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- 1930s-1940s - Gottlieb Jazz Photos (flickr image sets)
- Buffalo Bill Cody
- Carnegie Libraries
- Houdini
Teaching Resources
Resources
Nonfiction
- The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming (elementary/middle school)
- Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel (young adult)
- This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (young adult)
- Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (young adult)
Graphic Nonfiction History
- Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes
Historical Fiction

Environmental Movement, Nature, and Parks

Primary Sources
- 1635 - Historia Naturae (book): descriptions of flora and fauna of North and South America
- 1864 - Yosemite Act
- 1865 - Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove by Frederick Law Olmsted
- 1872 - Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (act)
- Yellowstone Falls (photo)
- 1893 - Petition and Map from John Muir and others, 2, 3, 4 (letter, map)
- 1906 - Antiquities Act
- 1909 - Scenes in the Proposed new National Park (newspaper)
- 1909 - Huge sequoias of Calaveras Grove now safe from the axe (newspaper)
- 1909 - John Burroughs, guided by John Muir, sees in reality the dream of forty years (newspaper
- 1912 - Auto Use in the National Parks
- 1935 - Preservation of Historic Sites Act
- 1962 - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (essay): environmental protection reform (preview only)
- 1964 - Secretary Udall's Letter on National Park Management
- 1964 - Wilderness Act
- 1965 - Land and Water Conservation Fund Act
- 1965 - Concession Policies Act
- 1966 - National Historic Preservation Act
- 1968 - Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
- 1968 - National Trails System Act, 1968
- 1968 - Administrative Policies for Recreation Areas
- 1968 - Administrative Policies for Historic Areas
- 1968 - Administrative Policies for Natural Areas,
- 1968 - Plan for Use of Fire in Ecosystem Management
- 1969 - National Environmental Policy Act
- 1970 - Clean Air Act of 1970
- 1972 - Clean Water Act of 1972
- 1973 - Discharge and garbage (photo)
- 1979 - Archaeological Resources Protection Act
- 1989 - Letter from Kelli Middlestead (letter)
Primary Source Sets
- 1941-1942 - Ansel Adams (photos)
- 1970s - Documerica National Parks (photos)
- 1970s - Documerica Pollution (photos)
- 1970s - Documerica David Hiser (photos)
- Field Book Project
- Humans and the Environment (5th grade, 8th grade, 10-11 grade) from National Archives
- Income Inequity from Space
- State of the Environment Photography Project
- Documerica Then and Now (photos)
- Yosemite National Park (newspaper articles)
Teacher Resources
- From the Source to the Sea: The Nisqually River Watershed
Resources
- American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
- American Society for Environmental History
- Conservation and Environment, Maps
- Documerica from NARA
- Evolution of the Conservation Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
- Mapping the National Parks
- Natural History in Early America
- Reclaiming the Everglades
- State of the Environment Blog (great historical photos featured)
- Tending the Commons
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Environment from American Experience

Food and Cooking

Primary Sources
- 1919 - Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar (cartoon)
- 1925 - Enforcement of Food Law (letter) from Harvey Wiley to President Coolidge
- 1941 - Save Every Drop of Oil or Fat (poster)
- 1941 - Sugar-Flour-Cereal-Space Canned Food (poster)
- 1942 - Victory Garden Plots (poster)
- 1943 - Frequent Watering of the Victory Garden (photo)
- 1941-1945 - Your Victory Garden (poster)
- 1946 - Mrs. Fidel Romero Proudly Exhibits her Canned Food (photo)
- 1974 - Maple Syrup (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- What's Cooking, Uncle Sam? (flickr image set)
Resources
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

Geography

Primary Source Sets
- David Rumsey Maps Collection
- Maps from the World Digital Library
Nonfiction
- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (adult)
- How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier (adult)

Gilded Age

Primary Sources
Teacher Resources: PSN

Global Studies

Nonfiction
- Waltzing with Bashir by Ari Folman & David Polonsky (graphic narrative) (young adult)
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (graphic narrative) (young adult)
- Shenzhen by Guy Delisle (graphic narrative) (young adult)
- The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert and others (graphic narrative) (young adult)
- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (adult)
Fiction
- Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (adult)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (adult)

Harlem Renaissance

Primary Sources
- 1917 - Charleston Rag (music)
- 1931 - Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts (manuscript) by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
- 1930s - Zora Neale Hurston (photo)
- 1936 - Portrait of Langston Hughes (photo)
- 1941 - Ballad of Booker T. (draft poem): notice the edits and changes
- 1942 - Langston Hughes in Chicago (photo)
- 1944 - Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro Music (manuscript) by Zora Neale Huston and Dorothy Waring
- 1953 - Portrait of Louis Armstrong (photo)
Resources
- The Harlem Renaissance
Nonfiction
- The Harlem Renaissance by Jim Haskins
- Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer
Historical Fiction
- Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers (young adult)

Health, Epidemics, and Medical Ethics

Primary Sources
- 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act
- 1906 - Meat Inspection Act (included current revisions)
- Public Health Services Act
Primary Source Sets
- The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
- Purse Food and Drug Act of 1906
Nonfiction
- The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (middle school)
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (adult)
- Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank (elementary/middle school)
- Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster by Albert Marrin (middle school) small pox
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson (adult)
- The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (adult)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (adult)
- Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
Fiction
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (also available as ebook, online, and Librivox) (health) (adult)
- Crispin by Avi (black death) (elementary/middle school)
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (yellow fever) (young adult)
- Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson (small pox) (elementary/middle school)
- Queen of Hearts by Martha Brooks (tb)
- A Time of Angels by Karen Hess (Spanish influenza) (middle school)
Web-based Resources
Activities: Louis Hancock Diary

Hispanic Americans

Primary Sources
- 1969 - Subcommittee on Labor by Cesar Chavez (speech): labor issues
- 1972 - Caesar Chavez, Migrant Workers Union Leader (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- Hispanic Heritage Month
Teacher Resources
Nonfiction
- César Chávez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Bárbara Cruz
- The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez
- Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez
- Reaching Out by Francisco Jimenez
- Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull

Immigration and Citizenship Challenges

Primary Sources
- 1868 - 14th Amendment (amendment): immigration, citizenship, due process, voting
- 1882 - Chinese Exclusion Act (act): anti-immigration, discrimination
- 1885 - Our Country by Josiah Strong (essay): racism, imperialism, anti-immigration
- 1907 - Gentlemen's Agreement (agreement): Japanese immigration, segregation, discrimination,
- 1924 - Immigration Act of 1924 (act): immigration
- 1924 - Act authorizing certificates of citizenship for Indians (act)
- 1942 - Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Relocation of Japanese (executive order): discrimination, racism
- 1948 - Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (act): immigration, discrimination

1965 - Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Cellar Act): immigration, nationality
Ellis Island Photos

Primary Resource Sets
- Immigration Sets
Resources
- Chinese in California, 1850-1925
- Ethnic America
- Ellis Island (newspaper articles)
- Immigration Challenges for New Americans
- Immigration to the United Staes, 1789-1939
Nonfiction
- Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum

Industrialization and the Labor

Primary Sources
- 1900 - Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa (photo): child labor, mining
- 1901-1912 - No lack of big game (cartoon): industrial trusts
- 1902 - The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens (essays): progress reform, muckrakers, urban corruption
- 1906 - Letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt (letter)
- 1904 - The History of the Standard Oil Company (Volume 1), (Volume 2) by Ida Tarbell (essay): muckrakers, antitrust (also available in audio LibriVox Volume 1, Volume 2)
- 1906 - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (fiction): muckrakers; corporate abuse; Chicago meat-packing industry, led to Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (also available in audio LibriVox)
- 1909 - Child Labor in the Canning Industry of Maryland (article) by Lewis W. Hine: child labor
- 1912 - Wilson's suggestion for a cartoon (cartoon): industrial trusts
- 1912 - Photograph taken after midnight (photo)
- 1913 - 14 yr old striker, Fola La Follette and Rose Livingston (photo)
- 1914 - Child labor (cartoon): child labor
- 1916 - Letter from Suzanne Heber Supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter)
- 1916 - Letter from Lyons Township High School Students supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter)
- 1916 - Letter from Marshall Dilling Opposing Keating-Own Child Labor Bill (letter)
- 1916 - Letter from Operatives of Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill in Opposition to Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter)
- 1916 - Keating-Owen Child Labor Acts of 1916 (act)
- 1916 - Eight Hour Day (newspaper articles)
- 1919 - With Drops of Blood (pamphlet) by William Haywood: labor unions
- 1923 - Assembly (photo): factories
- 1939 - Interviews: (overview at Chicago Meatpackers Union)
- 1942 - Operating a hand drill (photo): black woman working during WWII
- 1969 - Subcommittee on Labor by Cesar Chavez (speech): labor issues
- 1972 - Caesar Chavez, Migrant Workers Union Leader (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- 1890s - Pullman Porters (newspaper articles)
- 1908-1924 - Child Labor & Lewis Hine
- 1906-1924 - Child Labor (Lewis Hine) (flickr image set)
- 1900s - Labor Photos (flickr image set)
- 1886-1887 - Haymarket Affair (newspaper articles)
- 1892 - Coeur d'Alene Mining Insurrection (newspaper articles)
- 1905-1908 - Big Bill and the Haywood Trail (newspaper articles)
- 1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (newspaper articles)
Resources

America at Work: America at Leisure 1894-1915

Nonfiction Books
Historical Fiction Books
Activities
- Example: Search for Triangle Shirtwaist Fire using all the Google tools and you'll be amazing at what you'll find.

Intellectual Freedom

Primary Sources
- 1800 - A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry and the Liberty of the Press (treatise) by Tunis Wortman: freedom of the press, intellectual freedom
Teaching Resource

Invention

Primary Sources
- 1794 - Drawing of Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin (patent drawing)
- 1861 - Drawing of Elisha Otis's Elevator (patent drawing)
- 1865 - Drawing of Artificial Arm (patent drawing)
- 1880 - Drawing of the Incandesecent Light Bulb (patent drawing)
- 1904 - Drawing for a Game Board (patent drawing)
Primary Source Sets
- Patent Drawings
Teaching Resources
- The Inventive Wright Brothers
Resources

Intellectual Freedom

Primary Sources
- 1800 - A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry and the Liberty of the Press (treatise) by Tunis Wortman: freedom of the press, intellectual freedom
- 1966 - Freedom of Information Act (act)

Jamestown and First Settlements

Primary Sources
- 1590-1620 - Art of Theodor de Bry
- 1624 - Virginia (map)
Teaching Resources
- Jamestown
Resources

Japanese American Internment

Primary Sources
- 1907 - Gentlemen's Agreement (agreement): Japanese immigration, segregation, discrimination
- 1941 - Naval dispatch from Commander in Chief Pacific (dispatch): Pearl harbor attack
- 1942 - Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Relocation of Japanese (executive order): discrimination, racism
- 1942 - Civilian exlusion order (poster); relocation
- 1942 - Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Relocation of Japanese (executive order): discrimination, racism
- 1942 - Evacuees of Japanese descent (photo)
- 1942 - Relocating a People (brochure)
- 1948 - Displaced Persons Act of 1948 (act): immigration, discrimination
Teaching Resources
- Ansel Adam's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (Teacher Resource)
- Japanese American Internment During World War II
Resources
Nonfiction
- The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp by Michael O. Tunnell and George W. Chilcoat
- Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim
- Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
- A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II by Ellen Levine
- Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro
- Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp by Diane Yancey
- Only What They Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Dusao Inada
- Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp by Michael L. Cooper
Historical Fiction
- Missing in Action by Dean Hughs (young adult)

Natural Disasters

Primary Sources
- 1906 - Some graphic illustrations (newspaper)
- 1935 - Dust Storm in Rolla, Kansas (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- 1888 - Blizzard of 1888
- 1900 - Galveston Flood (newspaper articles)
- 1906 - San Francisco Earthquake (flickr image set)
- 1906 - San Francisco Earthquake (newspaper articles)
- 1968 - Hurricane Camille
- 1972 - Hurricane Agnes
Teacher Resources
Resources
- Images of Blizzards from Library of Congress
- Great Earthquake and Fire, Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
Nonfiction
- Blizzard! by Jim Murphy (middle school)
- The Chicago Fire by Jim Murphy (middle school)
- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson (adult)
- Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John Barry (adult)
Historical Fiction
- Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards (young adult)

Native Americans

Primary Sources
- 1789 - Treaty between the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians, 2 (treaty)
- 1830 - Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress On Indian Removal, NARA, (message)
- 1834 - Map of Lands Assignd to Indiana, Western Territory (map)
- 1836 - Cherokee Petition in Protest of the New Echota Treaty (petition)
- 1881 - A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson (essay): mistreatment of the Indians, leads to Dawes Act of 1887. Compare with Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 1887 - Dawes Act of 1887 (act)
- 1911-1939 - Two Boys in Front of a Tipi (photo)
- 1924 - Act authorizing certificates of citizenship for Indians (act)
- 1990 - Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Primary Source Sets
- Native American Heritage Month (flickr image set)
- North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis
Teacher Resources
- Native American Boarding Schools
- Treaty Trail: U.S. - Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest
Resources
Nonfiction
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown (adults)
- Saga of the Sioux: An Adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury My Heart by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and Dee Brown (middle school)
- Tatan’ka Iyota’ke: Sitting Bull and His World by Albert Marrin
- With One Sky Above Us: The Story of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians by Nancy Plain (middle school)
Historical Fiction
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (young adult, contemporary) (young adults)
- Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (young adults)
- The Second Bend in the River by Ann Rinaldi - Techumseh (young adults)
- Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell - 1864 - Navajo march (elementary/middle school)
- Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea by Scott O'Dell (young adults)
Interactives
- Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Fight Against Removal

Rural America and the West at the Turn of the 20th Century

Primary Sources
- 1920 - Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (fiction): small town America, intolerance, provincialism (also available in audio LibriVox)
Teacher Resources
Resources

Science and Scientists

Primary Sources
Primary Source Sets
- 1909 - Field Book Lantern Slides
- NASA
- Andre Goeldi Field Notes
- 1961-1973 - Pacific Ocean Biological Survey
- 1919 - Science Service
- Women in Science
Teacher Resources
- George Washington Carver
Resources
Interactives
- Understanding Character: The Life of Percy Julian
- Nobel Prize Games

September 11

Primary Sources
- 2004 - Map of four flights and timeline of events (maps)
Primary Sources Set
- 9/11: A Global Response (flickr image set)
- 9/11: A Spirit Renewed
- 9/11: A Day of Remembrance
- 9/11: A National Resolve
- 9/11: A Presidental Reaction
Teacher Resources
- September 11, 2001 (Teacher Resources)
Resources

Ship Disasters

Nonfiction
- Blizzard of Glass by Sally M. Walker
- Iceberg Right Ahead! Tragedy of the Titanic by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Historical Fiction
- The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf (historical fiction)

Slavery and Abolition in America

Primary Sources
- 1836 - Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (address)
- 1944 - Slave Manifest (manifest)
- 1845 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (autobiography): abolition of slavery (also available in audio LibriVox)
- 1848 - Map of the United States including Western Territories (map)
- 1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (fiction): slavery, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (also available in audio LibriVox) (also available as a scanned pages)
- 1879 - Frederick Douglass (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- 1839 - Amistad (flickr document set)
Teacher Resources
- Teaching about slavery through newspaper advertisements
Resources
Nonfiction Books
- United States v. Amistad: Slave Ship Mutiny by Susan Dudley Gold (high school)
Fiction Books
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (adult)
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (young adult)
- Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (young adult)
- Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson (young adult)
- Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen (middle school)
- North by Night by Katherine Ayres - underground railroad (young adult)
- Slave Dancer by Paula Fox - slavery (elementary/middle school)
- Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong - 1855 underground railroad (elementary/middle school)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (available as ebook, online and Librivox) (adult)
- Which Way to Freedom by Joyce Hansen (young adult)
Interactives
- From Slavery to Freedom in Colonial Times
- Slavery and the US Constitution

Southern America

Primary Sources
Teacher Resources

Spies and Espionage

Primary Sources
- 1863 - Thomas Nast (drawings) Harper Weekly
- 1863 - Execution, By Hanging, of Two Rebel Spies (drawings) Harper Weekly
Resources
- Ladies, Contraband and Spies: Women in the Civil War from the Library of Congress
Nonfiction
- The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko (yong adult)
- Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, A Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss (young adult)
- Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers
Historical Fiction
- Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi (young adult)
- On Secret Service by John Jakes (adult)

Transportation and Communication

Primary Sources
- 1861 - Pony Express Rider (photo)
- 1862 - Map showing overland Pacific Telegraph from San Francisco to Moscow (map)
- 1911 - Marathon (photo)
Primary Source Sets
Resources
Nonfiction
- Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (elementary/middle school)
- Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy (elementary/middle school)
Fiction
- Black Storm Comin' by Diane L. Wilson - 1960 pony express (young adult)

Urban Life

Primary Sources
Teacher Resources

Utah History

Primary Sources
- 1866 - Map of Utah Territory (map)
Primary Source Sets
- Utah Primary Source Sets
Teacher Resources
Activity
- As you work your way through Utah history, look for Wikipedia pages that need to be constructed. For instance, I built one on Almon Harris Thompson, a member of John Wesley Powell's Second Expedition.

War of 1812

Primary Sources
- 1812 - War of 1812 Cannonball (artifact)
- 1813 - A boxing match (cartoon)
Teaching Resources

Westward Expansion

Primary Sources
- 1839 - The Great Nation of Futurity (article in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review) by John O'Sullivan: columnist introduced the idea of manifest destiny (also available as scanned article)
- 1844 - Treat for Annexing Texas (treaty): failed to pass senate
- 1845 - The Dark Horse's Inaugural (address) by James Knox Polk
- 1845 - Annexation (article in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review) by John O'Sullivan: spoke out in opposition of annexation of Texas using the term manifest destiny (also available as scanned article)
- 1845 - Joint Resolution of Congress (resolution): admission of the state of Texas into the Union
- 1845 - The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California by Lansford Hastings. (also available in a PDF format)
- 1846 - Declaration of War Against Mexico (address) by James Knox Polk
- 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (treaty): ends war between US and Mexico
- 1848 - Map of the United States including Western Territories (map)
- 1849 - Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (essay): civil disobedience, self-reliance, war protest, transcendentalism (also as PDF, also available in audio LibriVox)
- 1893 - The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner (essay): shift from frontier to urban life
- 1942 - Shepherd with his horse and dog in Montana (photo)
Teaching Resources
- Trails to Utah and the Pacific, Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
- Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads
Resources
- Butch Cassidy
- Surveyers of the American West

White House

Teacher Resources
- White House Primary Documents

Women's Movements

Primary Sources
- 1776 - Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams (letter): remember the ladies
- 1843, 1845 - Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller (essay): women's movement (also available in audio LibriVox)
- 1848 - Declaration of Sentiments (proceedings): women's suffrage
- 1865 - A Petition for Univeral Suffrage (petition)
- 1869 - We'll Show You When We Come to Vote (music): women's suffrage
- 1871 - Daughters of Freedom (music): women's suffrage
- 1894 - Address, Hon. Elihu Root Before New York Consitutional Convention (address): anti-women's suffrage
- 1902 - The New Womanhood (book) by Winnifred Harper Cooley (read the poem The New Paradise)
- 1910-1915 - Susan B. Anthony (photo)
- 1910 - Alice Paul Talks (newspaper article) in Philadephia Tribune: women's suffrage, hunger strike
- 1911 - National Anti-Suffrage Association (photo): women's suffrage
- 1913 - Parade Stuggles to Victory (article) from Woman's Journal and Suffrage News
- 1916 - Route of Envoys (map) from National Woman's Party Records
- 1917 - Suffrage Banner (photo)
- 1917 - The Lady and the Tiger (cartoon)
- 1917 - Petition from Carrie Chapman Catt (petition)
- 1920 - Alice Paul (photo): women's suffrage leader
- 1933 - Nomination of Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor (nomination)
- 1942 - Portrait of a women training to operate buses and taxicabs (photo): taken in Salt Lake City
- 1963 - Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (essay): feminist movement, women's rights (not available online)
- 1970 - Martha Griffith's Discharge Petition for the Equal Rights Amendment (motion)
- 1972 - Equal Rights Amendment (amendment): equal rights, women's movement
- 1978 - Jimmy Carter signing Extension to ERA Ratification (photo)
- 1983 - Sally Ride (photo)
- 1989 - Sandra Day O'Connor (photo)
- 1995 - Constitutional Equality Amendment (CEA): equal rights, women's movement
Primary Sources Sets
- 1865-1920 - Woman Suffrage (flickr image set)
- 1800s-1900s - Women's Rights (flickr image set)
- 1940s - Women in World War II (flickr image set)
Teacher Resources
- Women in World History
- Women's Suffrage
Resources
- Library of Congress
- Additional Materials: PSN
Nonfiction
- Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (elementary/middle school)
- Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy (elementary/middle school)
Historical Fiction

World History

General Primary Source Sets

Australia
Canada
- Galt Museum & Archives
- Musee McCord
Demark
- Royal Library
France
- Bibliotheque de toulouse
Iceland
- Reykjavík Museum
Ireland
- National Library of Ireland
Netherlands
- Nationaal Archief
New Zealand
- National Library NZ
Norway
- Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane
- National Archives of Norway
Portugal
- Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Sweden
- Swedish National Heritage Board
United Kingdom

Youth Through History

Primary Sources
- 1866-1929 - Juvenile Instructor: provides a wonderful look at children's experiences in the West
- 1890-1910 - A Kodak creates a sensation (photo)
- 1911-1939 - Two Boys in Front of a Tipi (photo)
- 1912 - Louis and Lola, Titanic Survivors (photo)
- 1916 - Letter from Lyons Township High School Students supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill (letter)
- 1917 - First School Teacher Reading to Students (photo)
- 1935 - WPA Toy Repair Projects (photo)
- 1940 - School children singing, New Mexico (photo)
- 1942 - High school student (photo)
- 1943 - A Member of the Washington DC Boys Club (photo)
- 1966 - Lady Bird Johnson Visiting a Classroom for Project Head Start (photo)
- 1972 - Beads for Sale (photo)
Primary Source Sets
- 1908-1924 - Child Labor & Lewis Hine (flickr image set)
- 1910s - The Progressive Era (flicker image set)
- 1906-1924 - Child Labor (Lewis Hine) (flickr image set
- 1989 - Letter from Kelli Middlestead (letter)
Resources

Key People

Charles Dickens

Nonfiction
- Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Archives Online

Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

1893 - From Helen Keller to Mabel Hubbard Bell (letter)
1913 - Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan Macy (photo)
Graphic Nonfiction
- Annie Sullivan: Trials of Helen Heller by Joseph Lambert

Mark Twain

Primary Sources
- 1885 - Mark Twain's Blood-Curdling Humor (editorial) in Life Magazine: negative review of Huck Finn.
- 1910 - Mark Twain is Dead at 74 (obituary) in New York Times
- 1915 - The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Pain: official biography (also available in LibriVox)
- 1920 - Moments with Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine: offical biographer of Mark Twain.
Additional Materials: Interactive Scrapbook, Library of Congress, Mark Twain, Mark Twain Images

Walt Whitman

Primary Source
- 1873 - Walt Whitman (photo)
- 1850s-1860s - Walt Whitman (notebook): this is the most important notebook, but others are available (#94, Hospital notebook,
Resources
Nonfiction
- Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley