Primary Sources: American History: Home

Engage students with intriguing and authentic primary sources! This classroom resource provides detailed instructions and pedagogical tactics on teaching with primary sources. Students will learn to critically analyze various kinds of primary sources while developing their close reading and comprehensions skills and responding to text-dependent questions. This standards-based manual is tailored for specific grade spans. Chapters are divided by the type of primary source including Paintings, Photographs, and Prints; Official Documents; Personal Documents; Posters, Signs, and Advertisements; Political Cartoons and Comic Strips; Maps; Artifacts; and Oral Histories, Interviews, Audio, and Video Recordings.

An ideal resource for cultural heritage professionals who teach with original materials, this book provides fresh, adaptable, and easy-to-implement primary source literacy exercises to improve their teaching and engage their students. * Presents adaptable, time-saving, and practical exercises for different audiences, disciplines, and types of collection materials * Advances pedagogical practice in special collections and archives beyond "show-and-tell" to mirror the current methods of practitioners in information literacy, which will serve efforts toward primary source literacy and assessment * Provides straightforward, time-saving exercises that provide enough detail to offer specific guidance to instructors but allow for flexibility and adaptability

Ideal for history majors, nonhistory majors taking history courses, as well as general readers, this book provides not only the primary documents and artifacts of ordinary people in history, but also annotations that help the reader put them into context and grasp their deeper meaning. * Examines all of world history from the prehistoric era to the present day, in every region of the world, with a special emphasis on non-Western cultures * Features valuable material not readily found online, primary sources, and content specifically aligned to Common Core standards * Supplies introductory material, extensive annotation, and in-depth analysis that heighten readers' appreciation of the historic significance of the topics covered * Explains how to make use of primary sources in order to put the documents and artifacts in their historical context * Includes both written documents and artifacts, uniquely laid out to make the content more accessible to readers