Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | July 9, 2013
Even though social media has expanded our capacity to interact with educators from around the world, often our Twitter and other social media environments still keep us fairly insulated from people outside our profession. I am occasionally reminded that I have something to offer those “outsiders” if I only remember to look. Last week my […]
Category: Miscellaneous, Primary Source Teaching Ideas, Recent Posts |
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Tags: African Americans, Ask a Librarian, Carter G. Woodson, Chicago, Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, The Warmth of Other Suns
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | September 5, 2010
Once you have read a handful of narratives from the Library of Congress collection, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938, you will never again rely wholly on textbooks to teach about slavery. These narratives tell more about the actual slave experience than any American history textbook can convey in a […]
Category: Primary Source Lessons, Primary Source Teaching Ideas |
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Tags: Library of Congress, Missouri, Oral History, Slavery
