Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Northern Draft Riots During the Civil War

This collection uses primary sources to explore the secession of southern states from the United States prior to the Civil War.

What is the balance between constitutional rights and security during a war? Young historians debate the question while looking at Lincoln's decision to suspect habeas corpus during the Civil War. After reviewing his order, discussion...

This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.

This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era.

Using interactives and videos, this instructional activity explores the unique challenges Lincoln faced during the five years of bloody civil war which made him America's greatest but most controversial wartime leader.

This collection uses primary sources to explore early Chinese immigration to the United States.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the rise of conservatism in the United States in the 1980s.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Puerto Rican migration to the US.

This collection uses primary sources to explore Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried.