Primary Source Nexus - free teaching & learning resources curated source sets thanks to the Library of Congress Teaching with #PrimarySources grant program.

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13 Nov 2024
TPS Consortium Update November 2024 - It's content from #Teaching with #PrimarySources program partners & @librarycongress that you won’t find anywhere else! PD, primary source sets, collections, curricular resources, & more. mailchi.mp/tpsteachersnetwor… #tlchat #sschat #engchat
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Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.
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28 Oct 2024
Deadline to apply for the #Teaching with #PrimarySources (TPS) Spring Internship Program is Friday, November 1! loc.gov/item/internships/tea…
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Today marks 120 years since New York City's subway opened! The Library of Congress collections contain imagery (including early films!) of New York City from that time period, and every time period since. loc.gov/item/today-in-histor…
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Uniforms, banners and torchlight parades: Who were the Wide Awakes and how did they campaign for Abraham Lincoln in 1860? blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2024/… #sschat #edchat
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10 Oct 2024
TPS Consortium Update October 2024 - It's content from #Teaching with #PrimarySources program partners & @librarycongress that you won’t find anywhere else! PD, primary source sets, collections, curricular resources, & more. mailchi.mp/tpsteachersnetwor… #tlchat #sschat #engchat
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