Category Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS)

The mission of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build awareness of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational use of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational resources. The Library achieves this mission through collaborations between […]

The SOURCES Annual Conference Program Committee welcomes proposals that focus on presenting strategies for using primary sources to help K-12 students engage in learning, develop critical thinking skills, and build content knowledge, specifically in one or more of the following ways: Justifying conclusions about whether a source is primary or secondary depending upon the time […]

Primary source sets from the Florida State Library and Archive Collection of primary sources for general Florida history Florida newspaper archive Orange County Regional History Center online database Florida Historical Society’s online catalog University of Florida’s Digital Collections Library of the University of Central Florida’s guide to Florida Archives and Manuscripts Repositories. A list of […]

The University of Central Florida (UCF) is one of the most dynamic universities in the country. Located in Orlando, Florida, UCF is the nation’s second-largest university. UCF is called a “Top Up-and-Coming” national university by U.S. News & World Report, a best-value university by The Princeton Review and Kiplinger’s, and one of the nation’s most […]

*Photos above (left to right): Memucan Hunt, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right; Nez Perce men, posed before transport to the Indian Territories, probably taken in Montana,1877; Walt Whitman, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing hat and sweater, holding butterfly; Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glass with right hand The Teaching with […]