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The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with PrimarySources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.
Teaching with PrimarySources in Social Studies Feb. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primarysource. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primarysources to share real accounts.
Students can help move books from their teacher’s desk to the class library and stacking on the shelves during clean-up time Being the door helper and holding open the door for their class to go through is a favorite for sure because it makes them feel so special! They are not available for homeschools.
Free Lessons: TCI’s free lessons quickly engage students with videos, vibrant images, primarysources, and more. Customizable Vocabulary Cards: Images, examples, extra terms—the new cards can do so much to support vocabulary development. The new Assessment Library makes finding, editing, and assigning assessments even easier.
Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.
PrimarySource Analysis Tools Engage students with firsthand accounts of the past with easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. In their new home, they could buy land, practice their faith, and have equal standing in their communities.
Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with PrimarySources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. The Library of Congress is developing a new education center that will break ground in the next few years.
You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primarysource of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class. Santana goes deep.”
Mamie Till-Mobley, Library of Congress Mamie Till-Mobley In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobleys son, Emmett, was tortured and killed because of his race. According to womenshistory.org, Addams also lobbied for abolishing child labor, forming the juvenile court system, and improving working conditions for men and women.
We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professionaldevelopment workshops. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primarysources rather than secondary sources.
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