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TPS Home - Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University
TPS Home - Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University
Teaching with Primary Sources offers free K-12 professional development thanks to funds provided by the Library of Congress. TPS-MTSU serves educators across Tennessee by improving the way primary sources are used to promote critical thinking in the classroom and across the curriculum. Includes lesson plans and activities as well as tools and primary source sets.
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·library.mtsu.edu·
TPS Home - Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University
Making Sense of Evidence
Making Sense of Evidence
“Making Sense of Documents” provide strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. “Scholars in Action” segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis.
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·historymatters.gmu.edu·
Making Sense of Evidence
World Digital Library Home
World Digital Library Home
the World Digital Library was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.
#primarysources#inservice#materials
·wdl.org·
World Digital Library Home
Volunteer Voices Collection | Libraries
Volunteer Voices Collection | Libraries
Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources, such as photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, and other artifacts, documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. The collection includes materials from archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums from across the state.
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·digital.lib.utk.edu·
Volunteer Voices Collection | Libraries
National Jukebox LOC.gov
National Jukebox LOC.gov
historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.
#education#audio#historic#primarysources
·loc.gov·
National Jukebox LOC.gov
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.
#primarysources#inservice#reference#web2.0#education#search#media#history#internet#books#free#research#culture#images#music#resources#video#database#archive#storage#audio#movies#film#archives#art#Free&OpenAccess#library
·archive.org·
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II
Preserving Japanese American stories of the past for the generations of tomorrow.
#inservice#primarysources#history#japan#wwii#oralhistory#archive#research#archives#video#japanese#japaneseamerican#internment
·densho.org·
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California
#primarysources#images#history#reference#photos#education#research#library#california#inservice
·calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu·
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Welcome to the Digital Library of Georgia
Welcome to the Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative based at the University of Georgia Libraries that collaborates with Georgia's Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life.
#primarysources#inservice#georgia#history#reference#library#images#culture#digital#archive
·dlg.galileo.usg.edu·
Welcome to the Digital Library of Georgia
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Smithsonian's History Explorer
provides presentations on various topics using primary sources and can be browsed by era, grade level or resource type. IT also provides lesson plans and other materials for teachers.
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·historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu·
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Teaching With Documents
Teaching With Documents
When we ask students to work with and learn from primary sources, we transform them into historians. Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the
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·archives.gov·
Teaching With Documents