History Education Information Primary Sources 
NCHE
APRIL 1, 2025
The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). For more information, contact Great Plains TPS Project Director Kathleen Barker at kathleen@ncheteach.org.
Moler's Musing
MARCH 8, 2025
One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Image & Source Analysis (8 Parts) A picture is worth a thousand wordsbut only if students know how to analyze it! Sourcing where their information comes from.
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NCHE
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. One example of the work that will be presented in The Source is students’ discoveries in their hometown of Thomaston, Georgia.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 3, 2023
As a country, we have not invested enough in teaching the very fundamental knowledge, skills and dispositions young people need to be informed and engaged participants in our bold experiment in self-government. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75 million to $23 million.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources. She took down the information, and she said she’d look into ordering soft covered copies to put on each unit. #TeachTruth #BHM2022 pic.twitter.com/LFDfO1qcQM — Valencia Abbott (@vannabbott) November 8, 2022 In my U.S.
Zinn Education Project
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents. interview was instrumental in elevating the discourse within my secondary history classroom.
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