"First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

Highlights from the past and present of Florida, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring found poetry and the ability to retell history from one's own perspective. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to create poetry based on the language found in Depression Era oral histories.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to learn about French Canadian immigrants and their contributions in New England.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to determine why colonists were drawn to settle in a particular region of the country.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine George Washington's leadership in the French and Indian War, at the Federal Convention, and as chief executive.

Highlights from the past and present of Georgia, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to explore German immigration to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to conduct ethnographic research to show how cultural artifacts from The Grapes of Wrath support one of the book's many themes.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the lives of migrant workers in California during the Great Depression.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to gain a better understanding of why the government takes care of its people and how this type of welfare state started.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine the degree to which the Depression/New Deal amended the economic destruction of the Civil War.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine significant events and attitudes of the 1920s related to The Great Gatsby.

A selection of Library of Congress primary sources exploring the Harlem Renaissance. This set also includes a Teacher's Guide with historical context and teaching suggestions.

Highlights from the past and present of Hawaii, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

Article in the 1925 magazine "Your car; a magazine of romance, fact and fiction" by a former criminal about his experience working for Henry Ford. The article is on pages 44, 45, and 82.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to investigate and examine the impact transportation has had on peoples' lives by comparing and contrasting the turn of the centuries.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine a set of pictograph documents created by native peoples of Puebla, Mexico in 1531.

Highlights from the past and present of Idaho, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.