Activity
Gabriel Dumont Institute

The Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
This user-friendly site takes a close look at Metis history and culture through the use of many primary resources including oral histories, audio and video files, art, interviews, documents, and more. Very comprehensive site.
Website
University of North Carolina

Documenting the American South (Doc South)

For Students K - 1st Standards
Provides primary sources for the study of southern history, culture and literature. DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Recordkeeping and History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although many species note the passing of time, only our own species, Homo sapiens, is capable of sharing accounts, or memories, of past events and turning these into stories or "histories." This article traces the development of written...
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Curated OER

History Matters: Making Sense of Documents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Folklife Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Set up to assist American families in tracing their family histories, this extensive guide explains how to begin the process, to conduct research, tp take oral interviews, and to locate and analyze documents.
Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Immigration and Migration:today/during the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students address these questions through activities using oral history methods and investigating life in the 1930s. They compare the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those of people living through the Great...
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Other

Harvard Business School: A Daring Experiment: Business Education for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Fascinating discussion of the history of business education at Harvard which began in 1937. Includes a compilation of materials to support this such as historic documents, photographs, publications, and oral history interviews.
Handout
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & the Making of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Using primary documents, oral histories, and other historical resources, discover how the arts of Africa, Europe, and pre-Civil War America influenced the culture of enslaved African Americans.
Website
Other

Niels Bohr Library and Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
The Niels Bohr Library is dedicated to the history of physics and allied fields. It contains materials such as books, photos, and oral histories that document 19th and 20th century physics.
Primary
Smithsonian Institution

Archives of American Art: Digging for Clay

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of letters, writings, photographs, interviews and other primary sources documenting American artists working in clay.
Website
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950 1970

For Students 9th - 10th
View contemporary coverage of the Civil Rights Movement from two Roanoke, VA television stations including 230 video clips that feature both national events, such as the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy, as well as...
Primary
University of California

The Regents of the University of California: Free Speech Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A digital archive that documents the Free Speech Movement led by Mario Savio during September-December 1964. Site includes bibliography, documents, online videos, and sound recordings.