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|| Classroom Materials ||
Ready-to-use materials that bring the Library’s primary sources into the classroom.
Primary Source Sets
![detail from “Emigrant Map to North America”](images/immigmap.jpg)
Immigration Challenges for New Americans
Selected primary sources that document the immigrant experience in America.
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Themed Resources
![detail from “The First Voyage”](images/voyage.jpg)
The Library’s best exhibitions, activities, and presentations about the exploration of the Americas.
Lesson Plans
![detail of cherubs from sheet music](images/music.jpg)
Use historical sheet music to explore industrialization and the Progressive Era.
Collection Connections
![detail of Abraham Lincoln](images/lincoln.jpg)
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
Historical context and ideas for teaching with this collection of Lincoln-related primary sources.
|| Professional Development ||
Helping teachers build their skills in using the Library’s primary sources.
Library-Facilitated Training
Workshops at the Library and via videoconference.
TPS Direct
Build your own Library of Congress professional development.
|| TPS Partners ||
The Teaching with Primary Sources Program builds partnerships with educational organizations to support effective instruction using primary sources.
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The TPS Quarterly
Summer Issue: Supporting Inquiry Learning
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|| News & Events ||
Analyzing Primary Sources: Photographs and Prints
A new self-directed PD module takes a look at images from the Library.
Teacher resources have a new home on the Library of Congress Web site.
|| Using Primary Sources ||
A quick-start guide to bringing primary sources into the classroom, with guides, tools, and information on citation and copyright.