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Here's a Google Doc I put together for a recent workshop I helped to co-facilitate at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI. The theme of the workshop was "History on Wheels: Technology and Innovation in America's Auto Industry" and was sponsored by the National Council for History Education (NCHE).

I'm sharing because I tried to be transparent with participants about where I found materials. I also used it as an anchor doc to return to throughout the workshop when I needed teachers to access something specific.

I've shared a similar document from an NCHE workshop I co-facilitated a few years ago on NASA and space.

I hope these are helpful!

This album showcases the primary sources that were found by the participants who attended an NCSS 2019 workshop session sponsored by the TPS Eastern Region. We presented a brief tutorial on how to search the Library of Congress and then gave them some examples of primary sources that our graduate students had found this semester that specifically supported the teaching of "hard" history. We then asked them to take 15 minutes to search at loc.gov for a difficult or controversial subject which they teach and refine their initial search by using the format, date and location filters.  Their last task was to share their findings in a group Google Doc in real time.

The first three primary sources came from the graduate class and the remaining ones came from the NCSS 2019 workshop.  These primary sources are awesome!  I was thrilled with the graduate student findings and blown out of the water with the NCSS 2019 participants findings. I was also impressed that so much could be done in such a short period of time at a conference workshop.  We assumed that folks would brings iPads or computers.  They were all doing this on their cell phones!  Impressive!