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Resources of books for both educators and students pertaining to westward expansion

A brief introduction to primary sources, what they look like, how they differ from secondary sources, and why they are important sources of information.

"Find and use activities crafted by educators using documents from the National Archives. Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators."

A Summer Workshop for Educators on Using Historical Documents in the Classroom  --one week workshop in Waltham July 21-25

Gives guides for general primary sources, oral histories, books, photographs/prints, manuscripts, political cartoons, maps, sheet music, motion pictures, and sound recordings.

Teaching with primary sources. On the right side column there are some analysis tools (pdf and doc versions)

Use this tool to record your responses to a primary source. If you need guidance, use the sample questions. 

The site offers bibliographic information and digital facsimiles for selected collections of manuscript codices, texts, documents, papers, and leaves held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library as well as those privately owned by Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C'53, WG'56). Penn holds over 2,000 Western manuscripts produced before the 19th century; medieval and Renaissance manuscripts comprise approximately 900 items, the earliest dating from 1000 A.D. Its holdings of Indic manuscripts is the largest in the Western hemisphere with more than 3,000 items. The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection emphasizes secular topics, especially science and mathematics, and includes tablets from the 21st to 18th centuries B.C.

 A gifted diarist, Sassoon kept a journal for most of his life, and the papers include a run stretching from 1905 to 1959. At the heart of this series are the war diaries, a fascinating resource for the study of the literature of the First World War which enables a fresh analysis of Sassoon's experience of the catastrophic war which influenced him profoundly.