Most of the Library's collection is focused on US primary sources, but, as we keep finding, it has an amazing international collection too. 

David Morris' blog discusses the process for digitizing the World newspapers. 

https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2024/10/preserving-and-providing-newspapers-in-the-european-reading-room/?loclr=eaint

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    World History    Bilingual Education/ESL  

Greetings from the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill!

As part of our outreach mission, we provide educators with the tools, resources, and knowledge needed to teach about the history, cultures, and languages of the region.

Through a grant from the Library of Congress - Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region program, we are currently developing a professional development module for middle and high school history teachers, focusing on teaching about the Cold War using primary sources. Our goal is to equip teachers with resources and strategies for fostering students' historical awareness and understanding of the Cold War's legacies and its impact on contemporary events.

Your input is invaluable at this stage! Please help us tailor this module to ensure that it is both relevant and practical for your classroom. We estimate it will take you no more than 5 minutes to complete the survey - https://forms.office.com/r/PR4vTyc91C

Know a teacher who might be interested? Please share this survey with them!

Thank you for your participation!

Don't miss the blog post from Natte Fortier about this important archive of Latin American resources, including AP Spanish Lit Authors and Feminists. 

PALABRA in the Classroom

  6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Bilingual Education/ESL    AP    Latin America    Feminist  

The Library has a large collection of fully digitized books on 81 countries throughout the world.  They were published in the 1990s and early 2000s by the Federal Research Division.  From Albania to Yugoslavia with stops in Chile, Somalia, and Vietnam, your students can explore the History, Culture, Religions, Politics, and Environment of nations on every continent. 

The book on Israel is especially pertinent today because it covers Palestine as well. 

Country Studies

Joining these books with the amazing Maps collections can be an entire week's lesson. 

Sir Francis Drake

General Maps Collection

Maps of Africa

Maps of Asia

Maps of South America

Maps of Australia

Maps of Europe

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The Historic England Archive has released a trove of aerial photos from World War 2 for public viewing. The US Army Air Corps collection is called "Baseball and Bombers" and includes images from throughout SW England. The Mighty 8th and the 9th were the primary squadrons involved in defense of the region. 

Remember -- in museum and archive websites, look for the SEARCH box. Many places have their collections digitized or have classroom materials on related content. 

BBC article

Historic England Archive

Baseball and Bombers link

Mighty 8th Air Force Museum

9th Air Force

American Air Museum in Britain

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Dear colleagues,

I'd like to call your attention to a new professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers of world history (including dual-enrollment). To commemorate the 10th anniversary of its involvement in the creation of the C3 Framework, the American Historical Association will convene a teacher institute via Zoom from July 31-August 4 with generous sponsorship from OER Project.

2023 Teacher Institute: Is Democracy in Crisis?

The five sessions in this week-long program will explore how teachers can channel one of the most pressing questions in global current events to engage students in the world history classroom. Historian Kenneth Pomeranz will lead participants through analysis of the efforts of leading historians to contextualize the political, social, and economic forces driving a resurgence of authoritarianism around the globe. Understanding today’s international news requires careful consideration of many of the issues around which teachers organize surveys of world history: competing models of sovereign authority; the expansion of global capitalism; the Cold War and its legacies; the enduring power of ethnonationalism; and the ongoing reverberations of imperialism, decolonization, and racial discrimination. The institute will focus on providing participants with content knowledge, primary sources, and lessons that can be applied directly topics covered in many state standards for world history from the Neolithic to the present.

Applications are now open. For more information, see our website.

Several sessions will focus on primary sources - both texts and artifacts - that can help illuminate broad developments that feature in many state standards. We've asked Dr. Pomeranz and other scholars and teachers who will be part of the program to discuss primary sources they love to use in the classroom. What kinds of questions would you like to ask of historians who are pushing the boundaries of scholarship and framing the narratives that appear in world history textbooks?

Cuneiform tablet. Mesopotamia, 2039 B.C. Page 2. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (146)

To follow up on my recent post asking for recommended Mesoamerica resources, I would also be grateful for your suggestions for instructional resources on Mesopotamia.

Here’s a starting point:

• Handbook on Mesopotamia (from Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section. Mesopotamia. London, H. M. Stationery off, 1920. Pdf)
• Mesopotamia Meets the 21^st Century WISE Guide
• World Digital Library Mesopotamia

Because it is often challenging to find primary source material on earlier periods of World History, I appreciate being able to reach out to TPS Teachers Network members.

Thanks again for your help!

  Social Studies/History     Mesopotamia     Cuneiform  

The Codex Quetzalecatzin

A recent posting on AASL Member Forum (the discussion list of the American Association of School Librarians) asked for ideas for high school level lesson plans on Mesoamerica.

An AASL member offered the following suggestions including Library of Congress resources:

• Gardiner Museum
• The Codex Quetzalecatzin

I was able to point out these resources:

• The Codex Quetzalecatzin comes to the Library of Congress (November 21, 2017 blog posting by John Hessler)
• Exploring the Early Americas (overview of exhibit featuring selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress)
• Mapa Quetzalecatzin (recorded webinar from November 2017 by John Hessler, a cartographic specialist in the Geography and Map Division)

I would be grateful for any additional ideas that you might have and will update this TPS Discussion to include items shared on the AASL Forum.

Thanks for your help!

  Social Studies/History    Mesoamerica  

Here is a great resource for primary sources! The Louvre Museum has uploaded almost half a million of their collection to this website complete with documentation. 

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ 

Great for primary source analysis. 

Cross-post

MDR is a curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages. Users can browse an alphabetical list or search using controlled-vocabulary subject tags to find vetted online resources of many types, including: imagebanks; bibliographies and reference works; pedagogical tools; editions and translations; music and other multimedia collections; interpretative websites; and new works of digital scholarship. 

http://mdr-maa.org/