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Simply email [email protected] to reserve primary source packs for your classroom. Primary source packs can also be displayed in the LRC “museum-style” and teachers can schedule a time for your classroom to attend an internal “field trip”.
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From the publisher: "Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience."
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PRO 500 Inventions That Shaped America / Primary Sources Pack 150432
The 20 documents in the Inventions That Shaped America Primary Sources Pack are: 1. The cotton gin - 1794 2. Illustration (1869) published in Harper's Weekly of the ""First Cotton Gin"" produced around 1800 3. Illustration of Robert Fulton's steamboat the Clermont - ca. 1810 4. The telegraph, pioneered by Samuel Morse in the 1830s and 1840s 5. Illustration of Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper in 1884, first patented in 1848 6. Photograph of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah - 1869 7. Entry in Alexander Graham Bell's journal, describing an experiment - 1876 8. Patent drawing for the telephone (1876) and various reactions to the invention 9. Advertisement for Joseph Glidden's Barbed Wire - late 1800s 10. Photograph of Thomas Edison with his invention, the phonograph - 1878 11. Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb - 1880 12. Photograph of the Wright brothers' first powered, controlled, sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - December 17, 1903 13. Telegraph message from Orville Wright to his father - 1903 14. Advertisement for an early version of the refrigerator - 1905 15. Henry Ford's assembly line production process, introduced in 1913 16. Rubber store advertisement - early 1900s 17. Advertisement for penicillin production from Life magazine - 1944 18. Advertisement for an experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 19. The World-Wide Web, developed in the 1960s and 1970s 20. Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates pose with personal computers of the day - 1981" PRO 503 Ancient Civilizations / Primary Sources Pack 150085 "The 20 documents in the Ancient Civilization Primary Sources are: 1. Photograph of ancient cuneiform writing in Ur, southern Iraq - the cuneiform system of writing was developed by ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia circa 3500-3000 BCE 2. Photograph of excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro, city of the Indus Valley civilization that flourished between 3000 and 2000 BCE 3. Examples from Babylonian King Hammurabi's Code - his laws set up a universal system of justice for his empire - circa 1790 BCE4. Ancient Egyptian agricultural scene from the Tomb of Nakht - circa 1500 BCE 5. Photograph of Mykonos vase - one of the earliest known depictions of the Trojan Horse that Greeks used to enter Troy during Trojan War 1194-1184 BCE 6. Portion of marble relief of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal - depicts military campaigns against Elam - between 668 and 627 BCE 7. Statue of Siddhartha Gautama (""the Buddha""), on whose teachings Buddhism was founded - 4th century BCE 8. Photograph of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece - temple dedicated to the goddess Athena - construction began in 447 BC 9. Photograph of Great Wall of China at Jinshanling - Great Wall was originally conceived in 3rd century BCE by Emperor Qin Shi Huang 10. Carving from the Alexander Sarcophagus showing Alexander the Great fighting Persians at the Battle of Issus in 333 BCE 11. Photograph of Terracotta Army - sculptures of soldiers buried approximately 210 BCE with Qin Shi Huang, first Emperor of China 12. Photograph of Roman aqueduct built approximately 1st century CE in Segovia, Spain 13. Sculpture from the Arch of Titus in Rome depicting items taken from the Jewish temple after the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE - arch built 82 CE 14. Photograph of the Roman Colosseum used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles - construction completed in 80 CE 15. Photograph of a stone ring representing a goal in the Maya Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Mexico - circa 600-900 CE 16. Photograph of Machu Picchu - ancient Inca city built high in the Andes Mountains - city built approximately 1450 17. Map of Tenochtitlan, capital city of the Aztec civilization - built on an island in Lake Texcoco - map created 1524 18. Image of Aztecs seeding, tilling, and harvesting maize from the Florentine Codex - circa 1540 19. Photograph of three men and a camel on the paw of the partially excavated Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt - circa 1878 20. Photograph of Egyptologist Howard Carter examining the tomb of King Tut - 1923" PRO 504 The Cold War / Primary Sources Pack 150309 "The 20 documents in the The Cold War Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Photograph of German children watching 20 tons of flour being unloaded from a USAF airplane during the Berlin Airlift - 1948 2. Photograph of German children playing with toy American aircraft, simulating supply planes landing in western Berlin during the Berlin Airlift - 1948 3. Photograph depicting the 38th parallel - dividing line between communist North Korea and the anti-communist South Korea- 1950 4. Photograph of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - American citizens found guilty of passing information about the U.S. atomic bomb to the Soviet Union - 1951 5. Example of anti-Communist propaganda during the 1950s - specifically targeting the entertainment industry 6. Cartoon of Fidel Castro - established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere in Cuba in 1959 7. Photograph of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev viewing wreckage from American U-2 aircraft shot down by the Soviets - 1960 8. Photograph of the seven Project Mercury astronauts - first U.S. astronauts chosen as the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed in the ""space race"" - 1960 9. Photograph of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during Vienna Summit - 1961 10. Map of the United States used by President Kennedy and his advisors during the Cuban Missile Crisis - map shows the potential range of missiles shot from Cuba - 1962 11. Photograph of Cuban soldiers near anti-aircraft guns during the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 12. Photograph of members of peace activist group Women Strike for Peace hold signs regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 13. Photograph of teletype machine set up as a ""hotline"" between the Kremlin and the White House in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1963 14. Photograph of U.S. Marine escorting a Viet Cong suspect near Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam - 1965 15. Propaganda leaflet urging Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers to defect to the government of Vietnam - circa 1965-1971 16. Photograph of U.S. hostages held in Iran for 444 days returning to the United States - 1981 17. Photograph of President Ronald Reagan delivering a televised speech about the Strategic Defense Initiative - 1983 18. Photograph of people atop the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate as wall came down in 1989 19. Satellite photograph of Berlin with a yellow line showing where the Berlin Wall once stood - created 2002 20. Photograph of remains of the Iron Curtain in the Czech Republic - 2007" PRO 506 Civil Rights Movemeny Primary Sources Pack 150089 "The 20 documents in the Civil Rights Movement Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Photograph of African American boy at a water fountain outside the Halifax County Courthouse in Halifax, North Carolina - April 1938 2. Photograph of an African American going in the colored entrance of the Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi, on a Saturday afternoon - October 1939 3. Photograph of George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M. Nabrit celebrating their Brown v. Board of Education victory - May 17, 1954 4. Photograph of racial integration at Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C. - 1955 5. Police report on arrest of Rosa Parks - December 1, 1955 6. Photograph of the 101st Airborne escorting the ""Little Rock Nine"" into Little Rock Central High School - September 25, 1957 7. Photograph of a letter from Daisy Bates, publisher of the Arkansas State Press, to NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, on the treatment of the ""Little Rock Nine"" - December 17, 1957 8. Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Dwight D. Eisenhower expressing a personal plea for a demonstration of support for African Americans - May 13, 1958 9. Photograph of SNCC leader John Lewis and Jim Zwerg after being beaten during the Freedom Rides - Montgomery, Alabama - May 20, 1961 10. Photograph of James Meredith walking to class at the University of Mississippi, accompanied by U.S. Marshals - October 1, 1962 11. Photograph of Alabama Governor George Wallace attempting to block racial integration at the University of Alabama - confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach - June 11, 1963 12. Photograph of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd outside the Justice Department - June 14, 1963 13. Photograph of President John F. Kennedy with Civil Rights leaders - March on Washington - August 28, 1963 14. Photograph of the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. - Lincoln Memorial - August 28, 1963 15. Photograph of Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. - August 28, 1963 16. Letter from a child to President John F. Kennedy concerning civil rights issues in Birmingham, Alabama - September 1963 17. Photograph of a group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney - Birmingham, Alabama - September 5, 1963 18. Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson meeting with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer - White House Oval Office - January 18, 1964 19. Photograph of participants marching in the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama - March 1965 20. Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - August 6, 1965" PRO 509 Illinois Primary Sources Pack 150266 "The 20 Illinois Primary Sources are: 1. Oil painting depicting Father Jacques Marquette meeting with Native Americans in northern Mississippi River region - circa 1673 2. Painting depicting the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe during the Black Hawk War 3. Engraving of Nauvoo, Illinois - founding land of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - 1855 4. Photograph of Isaac Yost - Union soldier of Company C, 118th Regiment Illinois Infantry - 1862 5. Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln on the Antietam battlefield - October 1862 6. Lithograph of the colour-bearers of the 71st Illinois - 1862 7. Photograph of the Illinois Steel Works - 1880 8. Print showing police charging rioters in Haymarket Square in Chicago - May 4, 1886 9. Illustration of the Great Chicago Fire - shows citizens rushing over the Randolph Street Bridge - 1871 10. Political cartoon entitled “Poor Illinois!” - Illinois governor John R. Tanner portrayed as an executioner holding a gallows, with a noose, labeled “For Capitalists” - November 9, 1898 11. Advertisement for the Illinois Central Railroad - 1870 12. Photograph of the steamer Illinois - 1915 13. Photograph of President Ronald Reagan (11 years old) in Dixon, Illinois - 1922 14. Photograph of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Chicago World's Fair - 1933 15. Advertisement for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra - Works Progress Administration project - May 1937 16. Photograph of Michigan Avenue in Chicago - October 1940 17. Photograph of a billboard in Chicago urging citizens to buy coal to support the war effort - July 1941 18. Photograph of the Sears Towers in Chicago - 1980 19. Photograph of five female U.S. senators, including Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate - 1993 20. Photograph of Senator Barack Obama and family in front of Old State Capitol building in Springfield - just before announcing his candidacy for U.S. president - 2007" |
PRO 501 World War II / Primary Sources Pack 150069
The 20 documents in the World War II Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Photograph of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler - October 25, 1936 - official formation of the Axis between Germany and Italy 2. Photograph of a burning synagogue during Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany - November 9, 1939 3. British propaganda poster entitled ""Dig on for Victory"" - 1940 4. Photograph of the USS Arizona burning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - December 7, 1941 5. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - December 8, 1941 6. Poster for Westinghouse Magazine advertising ""Rosie the Riveter"" - 1942 7. Photograph of American dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway - June 6, 1942 8. Photograph of women at work on bomber - Douglas Aircraft Company - Long Beach, California - October 1942 9. Propaganda poster for Tuskegee Airmen - 1943 10. Photograph of a World War II Ration Book - 1943 11. Photograph of a shopkeeper canceling the coupons in a British housewife's ration book for tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for the week - April 1943 12. Photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - May 1943 13. Photograph entitled ""Into the Jaws of Death-U.S. troops wading through water & Nazi gunfire"" - June 6, 1944 14. Photograph entitled ""I Have Returned"" - General Douglas MacArthur returning to the Philippines - October 1944 15. Photograph of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference - February 4-11, 1945 16. Photograph of the first Iwo Jima flag raising - Iwo Jima, Japan - February 23, 1945 17. Photograph of two men sitting after the liberation of Lager-Nordhausen Death Camp - April 14, 1945 18. Photograph of the destruction near the city center of Berlin, Germany, after the Battle of Berlin - 1945 19. Photograph of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan - August 9, 1945 20. Photograph entitled ""Kissing the War Goodbye"" in celebration of VJ Day - Times Square, New York City - August 14, 1945" PRO 502 Native Americans / Primary Sources Pack 150069 "The 20 documents in the Native Americans Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Illustration of an Algonquian village on the Pamlico River estuary, Virginia - 1590 2. Illustration of Chief Powhatan in a longhouse at Werowocomoco, Virginia - 1612 3. A Dutch engraving of Pocahontas- 1616 4. Various Native American artifacts 5. Painting (1905) of Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Lower Columbia River - shows Sacagawea attempting to use sign language to communicate with other Indians - 1805 6. Illustration of Tecumseh losing his temper when General William Henry Harrison refuses to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne - Vincennes, Indiana - 1810 7. President Andrew Jackson's message to Congress - 1830 8. Lithograph depicting President Andrew Jackson as the ""Great Father"" to the Native Americans - 1835 9. Various accounts of the Trail of Tears - 1838-1839 10. Portraits of various historic Native Americans 11. Photograph of a family of Pawnee Indians outside their home in Oklahoma - ca.1870 12. Depictions of Native American life in the West - 1870s 13. Sioux Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in the western United States - 1876 14. Lithograph print of boys and girls at an Indian boarding school learning various skills - 1887 15. Various representations of Chief Joseph 16. Photograph of Sioux Indian children playing with their playhouses on the Indian reservation - 1907 17. A poster from the U.S. Department of the Interior following the Dawes General Allotment Act - 1911 18. Photograph of Native American code talkers operating a radio set during WW II - code talkers were from many tribes - 1943 19. Excerpts from a speech given by Gerry Gambill at a conference on Human Rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick - August 1958 20. Traditional Native American dancer at a modern Pow Wow in 2007" PRO 505 Great Depression & New Deal / Primary Sources Pack 150018 "The 20 documents in the Great Depression & New Deal Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Photograph of a crowd outside the New York Stock Exchange after the crash - 1929 2. Photograph of unemployed men waiting outside a soup kitchen in Chicago - February 1931 3. Photograph of a crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression - 1931 4. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt talking to a farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia - 1932 5. Photograph of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps constructing a road - 1933 6. Letter regarding the funding for the Civilian Conservation Corps - April 5, 1933 7. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act of 1935 - August 14, 1935 8. Photograph of a ""Hoover wagon"" - used by farmers to save on gasoline - 1935 9. Photograph of Oklahoma Dust Bowl refugees - San Fernando, California - June 1935 10. Photograph of Florence Thompson with several of her children during the Dust Bowl - entitled ""Migrant Mother"" - February 1936 11. Photograph of a farmer and his sons walking in a dust storm - Cimarron County, Oklahoma - April 1936 12. Photograph of buried machinery in Dallas, South Dakota, during the Dust Bowl - May 13, 1936 13. Photograph of a poor mother and her children during the Great Depression - Elm Grove, California - August 1936 14. Photograph of construction on the Bonneville Power & Navigation Dam in Oregon - Public Works Administration project - October 24, 1936 15. Poster advertising Social Security benefits - 1938 16. Photograph of William Gropper's ""Construction of a Dam"" mural - 1939 17. Photograph of an anti-relief protest sign near Davenport, Iowa - 1940 18. Advertisement for the Workers Service Program in Rockford, Illinois - part of the Work Project Administration - 1941 19. Photograph of a girl pumping water from a well that is her town's sole water supply - project of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942 20. Map of the Tennessee Valley Authority - 1942" PRO 507 World War I / Primary Sources Pack 91874 "The 20 documents in the World War I Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Headline of The Sun, a New York newspaper - 1914 2. Photograph of German soldiers marching through the fields of Belgium during the 1914 invasion 3. Photograph of a German U-boat submarine - 1914 4. Illustration of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat - 1915 5. Photograph of the first armed Serbian aircraft - 1915 6. Photographs of land weapons of World War I - 1914- 1919 7. Depictions of trench warfare - 1914-1918 8. Leaders of the Allied Powers after the United States entered the war in 1917 9. United States propaganda poster - 1917 10. British sugar ration card - 1917 11. Women's Land Army poster displayed in Great Britain - 1917 12. From the diary of famous German pilot Manfred von Richthofen - 1917 13. United States recruitment posters for its branches of military service - 1917 14. Various hospital conditions during World War I - 1917 15. Leaders of the Central Powers of World War I - 1918 16. Cartoon depicting YWCA hostess houses in seventy camps - 1918 17. Poster entitled ""If I fail, he dies"" - ca. 1918 18. Newspaper article reporting the surrender of German forces - 1918 19. Poster entitled ""At Work Again"" - 1919 20. Poems from World War I - 1914-1919" PRO 508 The Holocaust / Primary Sources Pack 150055 "The 20 documents in the Holocaust Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Photograph of German SA stormtroopers starting boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin - signs say ""Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"" - April 1, 1933 2. Photograph of badge featuring the Star of David - Nazi regime forced Jews to wear it as a form of identification during Holocaust era 3. Diary entry of Edi Weinstein - Edi escaped from Treblinka concentration camp in Poland in 1942 4. List of people being transported to German concentration camps - the list includes last name, first name, date of birth, city of birth, profession, marital status, age, ability to work, address, and registration number - 1942 5. Photograph of Anne Frank in 1940 - Anne's diary detailing two years of hiding from German capture during WW II was published in 1947 6. Cover of report to the governments of the United Nations about actions of Nazis occupying Poland - first official government alert given to wartime allies about the Holocaust - December 1942 7. Photograph of Jews captured and forcibly pulled from dugouts during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising - May 1943 8. Drawing by Stefan Kryszak, survivor of Flossenbu_rg concentration camp in Germany - circa 1940s 9. Photograph of Nazi guards selecting Hungarian Jews to be sent to the gas chamber at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland - May/June 1944 10. Aerial photograph of Auschwitz I concentration camp in Poland - August 25, 1944 11. Photograph of crematorium with bones visible inside - located at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany - April 4, 1945 12. Photograph of General Eisenhower, General Bradley, General Patton, and other U.S. Army officers viewing burned remains of prisoners held at Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany - April 12, 1945 13. Photograph of Jewish slave laborers in their bunks at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany - April 16, 1945 14. Photograph of wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims by the Germans - May 5, 1945 15. Photograph of starving prisoners in concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria - May 5, 1945 16. Photograph of survivors at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria cheering U.S. Army soldiers one day after actual liberation - event was recreated at General Eisenhower's request - May 6, 1945 17. Page 2 of a 4-page letter from Pfc. Harold Porter, a young American medic, describing the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany - May 7, 1945 18. Photograph showing grave markers for victims in Wˆbbelin concentration camp in Germany - people in nearby town of Ludwigslust were forced to visit the camp, bury the dead, and attend the memorial service - May 8,1945 19. Photograph of Russian slave laborer among prisoners freed by the U.S. Army pointing out Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners - May 14, 1945 20. Photograph of barbed wire fencing near entrance to Auschwitz I camp in Poland - wire would kill escapees with high-voltage electricity - photo May 2006" PRO 510 Immigration to the U.S. Late 1800s-Early 1900s / Primary Sources Pack 150020 "The 20 documents in the Immigration to the U.S. Late 1800s-Early 1900s Primary Sources Pack are: 1. Painting titled The Emigrants by S. V. Helander - depicts a young Swedish farmer bidding farewell to friends and relatives - 19th century 2. Illustration of Irish immigrants to New York withdrawing money from the Emigrant Savings Bank to send to relatives in Ireland - 1880 3. Political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam on the ""U.S. Ark of Refuge"" welcoming immigrants, with cloud ""War""; over them - 1880 4. Political cartoon depicting prejudice against Chinese immigrants - 1882 5. Poster promoting White Star Line - British shipping company that brought many immigrants to America - circa late 1800s 6. Newspaper illustration depicting an ocean steamer with immigrants on board passing the Statue of Liberty - 1887 7. Newspaper illustration of crowd of Italian immigrants in New York City arriving to work as contract laborers in coal mines - 1888 8. Map showing distribution of foreign-born population in the United States - 1890 9. Photograph of laundry hanging from clotheslines in a New York City tenement yard - circa 1900 10. Photograph depicting the eye exam administered at Ellis Island - circa 1900 11. Photograph of Mulberry Street in Little Italy section of New York City - circa 1900 12. Document showing U.S. immigration figures for 1903 13. Photograph of immigrants on the deck of the S.S. Patricia, an Atlantic liner - 1906 14. Photograph of Jewish immigrant family working on piecework in the kitchen of their tenement home - 1912 15. Photograph of Polish immigrant family working on farm near Baltimore, Maryland - 1909 16. Photograph of Asian immigrants arriving at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, California - circa 1910 17. Photograph of Greek emigrants getting into small boats on their way to a steamship bound for America - 1910 18. WWI poster encouraging newly arrived immigrants to support the U.S. government and buy Liberty Bonds to fund the war effort - 1917 19. U.S. government poster offering help to educate immigrants - 1922 20. Aerial photograph of Ellis Island (foreground) in Upper New York Bay - 2014" |