Tools for Educators

New tools!

World History Links Guide
- This 3-page PDF highlights collections and teacher resources for world history, culture, and geography topics from the Library of Congress and TPS-TN.
Progressive Era Links Guide
- This 2-page PDF highlights collections and teacher resources related to this era in United States history from the Library of Congress and educator resources from TPS-TN.
How to Save & Print Primary Sources from the Library of Congress Web site
- This 2-page PDF offers a quick and easy introduction to saving and printing different kinds of primary sources. Great as a "next step" after using one of the search guides below.

Introductory Guide to Prints and Photographs
- This PDF offers strategies and quick instructions for searching the online catalog of the Library's Prints and Photographs Reading Room. The online catalog just got a complete face-lift to make it easier to use and easier to view. A great improvement!
Introductory Guide to American Memory
- This PDF offers strategies and quick instructions for searching this popular database of primary sources.
Introductory Links on the Library of Congress Web site
- This PDF includes good places to start and information on the Teachers Page.
Resources for Researchers
- This brief guide provides links to help a researcher begin to use the primary sources, bibliographies, collection guides, online reading rooms, and more at the Library of Congress Web site. Also includes links to information about saving, citing, and copyright.
Helpful Web Pages for Teachers within the Library of Congress
- This document contains links to Library of Congress Web pages that discuss primary sources, how to use them in the classroom, and how to find them on the Library's Web site.

African American History Links
- This 2-page PDF provides links to a wide variety of collections, exhibitions, and teacher resources related to African American history on the Library of Congress Web site, as well as additional resources available on the TPS-TN Web site.
Baseball Sources at the Library of Congress

This PDF serves as a quick guide to some of the best places to find baseball primary sources and other related materials on the Library of Congress Web site.

Celebrating Abraham Lincoln Online with Library of Congress Primary Sources
- This PDF provides important links and search terms for researching Abraham Lincoln.
Civil War Links – UPDATED!
- Top Ten: 1-page listing of most useful Civil War-related links for educators
- Comprehensive version: 5-page listing of collections, teacher materials, online exhibitions, and other search options for Civil War-related links.
Helpful STEM Links and Search terms for the Library of Congress Web Site

This PDF is a great tool for teachers in the STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

New Deal Links
- This 2-page PDF provides links to some of the best and most teacher-friendly resources related to the Great Depression and New Deal on the Library of Congress Web site, as well as the TPS-TN Web site. Included are links to primary source collections, lesson plans & activities, primary source sets, bibliographies, and other teacher materials.

Primary Source Activity
- These four sets of images help to distinguish between primary and secondary sources. A worksheet introduces each set and organizes your responses.
  - Set 1
  - Set 2
  - Set 3
  - Set 4
Graphic organizers
- These four PDF worksheets, created by Teaching with Primary Sources consortium member Barbara Stripling, are great for helping students think more deeply about primary sources. Just print, copy, and hand out!
  - Main ideas and supporting evidence
  - Multiple perspectives: point/counterpoint
  - Connecting ideas across texts
  - Causes and effects
25 Questions to Ask Your Primary Source
- Before you begin to examine primary sources, learn some essential questions that you must ask about any item you find in an historical archive.

Last updated on: 01/4/12 08:42 am