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|| Classroom Materials ||
Ready-to-use materials that bring the Library’s primary sources into the classroom.
Primary Source Sets
Immigration Challenges for New Americans
Selected primary sources that document the immigrant experience in America.
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Themed Resources
The Library’s best exhibitions, activities, and presentations about the exploration of the Americas.
Lesson Plans
Use historical sheet music to explore industrialization and the Progressive Era.
Collection Connections
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.