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Primary Source Materials
Using Primary Sources
The materials here are designed to help teachers introduce the use of primary source materials
This site includes tips for introducing students to using objects, images, audio, statistics, and the community at large, Includes projects  and evaluation ideas.
Students take on the role of historian as they make predictions about the lifestyle of Thomas and Elizabeth Springer, based on artifacts found in their  200-year-old house.

Advertising
Contains newspaper ads for beauty and hygiene, radio, television, transportation and World War II.

American History
American Revolution
Stories of spy networks, Bendict Arnold, female spies, maps of spy letter routes, digitized pictures of the actual letters and text.
Civil War
A collection of letters from Newton Robert Scott to a neighborhood friend over a three year period, as he served with the 36th Infantry, Iowa volunteers.
World War II
Chronicles the life of this artist from the draft through his last cartoon on June 21, 1944before being killed in action on June 26, 1944.











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