Historical Thinking – Featured Source Collection

This page links to past and present “Featured Sources” from Emerging America’s Library of Congress TPS page. Each one presents hands-on classroom instructional tools, using accessible and engaging primary sources from the Library of Congress.

• Library of Congress Primary Source Analysis Tools “Featuring Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform,” from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs.
• Grade 5 Performance Assessment: Comparing Differing Points of View of the Same Historical Event Featuring “The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.” Engraving by Paul Revere (1770)