Library of Congress &
Primary Sources

Finding and using primary sources from the Library of Congress

• Shortcuts for navigating the Library of Congress web site

• How to use primary sources

• Why use primary sources

• Primary source analysis tool

• Teacher's guide to primary source analysis tool

• Primary source investigation exercises/materials

• Primary source investigation worksheet

• How to link/bookmark in American Memory

• Tracking form for recording LOC materials

• "Reading and Researching" photographs article from Archivist magazine

Library of Congress Summer Teachers Institute

• Summer Teachers Institute info

• Martha's VoiceThread presentation on her Institute experience

VoiceThread presentation tool

• VoiceThread

• Social Studies examples using VoiceThread

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