By and For the Teaching with Primary Sources Community
Topic: Archival Literacy
By Jennifer Olguin New Mexico State University (NMSU) Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is situated uniquely in the southern New Mexico community of Las Cruces, just 40 miles from the …
By Shu Wan Teaching with primary sources is challenging for American college instructors of Asian history and culture. US History teachers could easily arrange class visits to special collections in …
By Claire Du Laney, Wendy Guerra, and Lori Schwartz In 2020-2021, Hagel Archivist Lori Schwartz, Digital Initiatives Archivist Wendy Guerra, and Outreach Archivist Claire Du Laney at the University of …
By Nichole DeWall, Professor of English, McKendree University When I casually mentioned during my Fall 2020 undergraduate Shakespeare course that I’d written a dissertation on early modern plague writing, my …
By Rachel Duke and Rory Grennan, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries In Spring 2020, many special collections instructors immediately discovered the detriments of meeting learners online. Aside …
By Brooke Guthrie / Instruction sessions with artifacts are hands-on, interactive, and some of my favorite sessions to teach. At Duke University’s Rubenstein Library, where I work with the History of Medicine Collections, artifacts are used alongside rare books, manuscripts, and more in both undergraduate and graduate instruction.
Submitted by Alison Stankrauff Archivists interested in establishing relationships and collaborations with history instructors to foster teaching with primary sources should assess their archive’s collections considering the following four criteria: …
Submitted in 2016 by Lindsay Anderberg, Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Librarian and Poly Archivist, New York University, la715@nyu.edu Introduction I have found these sessions to be an engaging introduction for …
Submitted by Sarah Horowitz This session was designed for a first-year writing seminar called “Truth and Techno-Identity: Auto/Biographies” which explored issues of truth, self-presentation, and social media. The goals of …
Submitted by Jenny Swadosh, The New School This lesson was originally developed for teaching Parsons School of Design first-year students about primary sources as part of a required art and …