Archiving Lesson Plan Primary Sources 
Studies Weekly
APRIL 7, 2025
According to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, he was in great demand to give visiting lectures at mathematical societies, colleges, and universities across the world. Soon after, he accepted a position as a mathematics instructor at the University of Michigan. His own records document visits to 87 countries.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .
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Zinn Education Project
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. In using the How We Remember lesson plan, our students engaged with Smith’s writing and started to explore the spaces he visited where the history of enslavement is either remembered or forgotten.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2018
The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves is offering “The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy,” described on its website as an “archive of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history and its legacy today.” The materials can be downloaded free.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 9, 2024
Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources. I love the ideas of picture books and primary sources for young children, too.
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