Many of these primary source materials are multimedia. In order to access the audio files in these packets, you will need to download Real Player or Windows Media Player. For video files you will need Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime.
Primary
Source Packets
 FDR/New
Deal. Includes links to text of 'fireside chats,' editorial cartoons,
audio files of first inaugural address, video of FDR signing Social Security
Act, photos, and audio files from WPA Folk Music Project, "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt"
letters. |
 World
War II Homefront. Includes links to audio files of public service announcements,
popular music and radio broadcasts. Also includes links to variety
of homefront propaganda such as posters, cartoons, matchbooks, etc.
Letters to and from a GI and various odds and ends of life at home in America
during the second World War. |
 The
Guilded Age. This is an example of the use of HyperStudio to present
primary sources found on the Internet/WWW. Students can use HyperStudio
to develop their own multimedia presentations. Among the primary
sources in this set are photographs, newspaper headlines, political cartoons
and diary entries from the period in American history from 1880-1920. |
| A Note About Fair Use and Primary Sources. This provides a brief overview of issues related to the use of on-line primary sources and a few links to more detailed discussion of the issues. |
Other
On-line
Primary Source Packets
Primary Source Packets
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Slavery
Before the Civil War
is part of the Library of Congress' Using primary Sources page. The resource set includes photographs of slave quarters and narratives from former slaves. |
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Africans in America: Judgment Day is a web site companion for the award-winning documentary. the resource set includes posters of slave auctions, letters from slave holders, paintings, narratives, plantation account books and much more. |
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Recreational Travel and the Automobile. This resource set includes advertisements for automobiles, photos of early outings with autos and other artifacts of the early auto age. |
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Integration
of Baseball. Web site with artifacts of some aspects of the color
line's
development and of the Negro Leagues. |