Primary sources have the authenticity and power to bring history to life, allowing students to connect with the voices and images of real people from the past. Helping students analyze and interpret primary sources in context leads to development of historical empathy. The challenge to teach students to apply critical thinking and inquiry skills is also a golden opportunity for librarians to teach the skills of their library information skills curricula....

Presents the historical events and social issues of colonial America through twenty-four primary documents, including diary entries, poems, and personal narratives.

Presents fifteen excerpts from primary sources related to World War II, including speeches, diary entries, newspaper accounts, novels, poems, and memoirs.

"Introduces young readers to primary sources related to the Statue of Liberty"--

Provides approximately thirty full or excerpted speeches, diary entries, novels, poems, correspondence, and artwork related to World War I, with information placing each in context.

This book, telling the story of westward expansion in the words of the people who lived it, presents seventeen full or excerpted documents that provide a wide range of perspectives on this period in history.

Presents an overview of the Great Depression through the words and writings of the time: more than twenty-five excerpts from speeches, poems, fiction and non-fiction works.