Primary Source Sets
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.
- Shrinking the World: Pan American Airways in the Postwar Era
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- California Gold Rush
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Treaty of Versailles and the End of World War I
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Cotton Gin and the Expansion of Slavery
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s),
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Pablo Picasso's Guernica and Modern War
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Victorian Era
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861),
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Immigration through Angel Island
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Beginnings of the American Red Cross
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900),
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Women and the Temperance Movement
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930),
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- John Brown's Raid on Harper’s Ferry
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Space Race
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- World War II’s Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Cuban Immigration After the Revolution, 1959-1973
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and the Urbanization of Chicago
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900),
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Eugenics Movement in the United States
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Mormon Migration
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The American Whaling Industry
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Columbian Exchange
- Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
- Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945),
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The Panic of 1837
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Truth, Justice, and the Birth of the Superhero Comic Book
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Pop Art in the US
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Nineteenth-Century Schools for the Deaf and Blind
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900),
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s),
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Powhatan People and the English at Jamestown
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- The Rise of Italian Fascism and Its Influence on Europe
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930),
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Dutch New Netherland
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- Women in the Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- ACT UP and the AIDS Crisis
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- World War I: America Heads to War
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Puerto Rican Migration to the US
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- When Miners Strike: West Virginia Coal Mining and Labor History
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- There is No Cure for Polio
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The Equal Rights Amendment
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Japanese American Internment During World War II
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763),
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Boomtimes Again: Twentieth-Century Mining in the Mojave Desert
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930),
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Spanish Missions in California
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877),
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Poetry of Maya Angelou
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- The Fifteenth Amendment
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Busing & Beyond: School Desegregation in Boston
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Immigration and Americanization, 1880-1930
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The American Indian Movement, 1968-1978
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s),
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamp Programs
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945),
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- African American Soldiers in World War I
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Latin American Revolutionaries
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- Texas Revolution
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Invention of the Telephone
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Boston Tea Party
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- The Homestead Strike
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Exploration of the Americas
- Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
- The New Woman
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Populist Movement
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945),
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Colonial Religion
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- The Wounded Knee Massacre
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763),
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Rise of Conservatism in the 1980s
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Women and the Blues
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877),
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Electrifying America
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Great Migration
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The War of 1812
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Northern Draft Riots During the Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Rock 'n' Roll: Beginnings to Woodstock
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Social Realism
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Creating the US Constitution
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Golden Age of Broadway
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Secession of the Southern States
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- The New Deal
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Manifest Destiny
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- Cross-Cultural Colonial Conflicts
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- Shays' Rebellion
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
- The Hudson River School
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Women’s Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Homestead Acts
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Scopes Trial
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- World War II: Women on the Home Front
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Postwar Rise of the Suburbs
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- The Freedmen's Bureau
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- The Panama Canal
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The American Abolitionist Movement
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- American Imperialism: The Spanish-American War
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
- The Colonies: Motivations and Realities
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Perspectives on the French and Indian War
- Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
- The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Negro League Baseball
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- Jacksonian Democracy?
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Black Power Movement
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- American Indian Boarding Schools
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
- The Impact of Television on News Media
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
- Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
- Early Chinese Immigration to the US
- The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
- Road to Revolution: 1763-1776
- Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
