Maryland Humanities is proud to produce educational content for K-12 educators through funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. The mission of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program is to: build awareness of the Library’s educational initiatives; provide content that promotes the effective educational use of the Library’s resources; and offer access to and promote sustained use of the Library’s educational resources. The Library achieves this mission through collaborations between the Library and the K‐12 educational community across the United States. The program contributes to the quality of education by helping teachers use the Library’s digitized primary sources to engage students, develop their critical thinking skills and construct knowledge.
Learn more about the Library’s TPS program and other resources available to teachers at www.loc.gov/teachers.
Teaching with Primary Sources: Inquiry Kits
A partnership between Maryland Humanities, Maryland Public Television, and the Maryland State Department of Education, funded by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, the American History, World History, and Government collections of inquiry kits allow students to select a research topic of interest and evaluate themed primary sources from the Library of Congress. From early cultures to the modern-day role of the United States, the inquiry kits examine social studies/history themes and align with Maryland curriculum units. Inquiry Kits are great for use in classroom activities, or as starter kits for History Day projects!
- Check Out the New Inquiry Kits for Fall 2022!
Elementary:
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The Stereoscope: A New Way to See the World
The Pullman Car and a Railroad Workers’ Strike
Improving History: The Stories of Five Women Inventors
United States History:
What They Carried: The Objects and Clothing of Enslaved Women
The “Hays Code” and Motion Picture Censorship
The Creation of the Polio Vaccination
The Beginnings of the World Wide Web
Tejano Music: A Genre That Brings Cultures Together
World History:
Medicine Around the World in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Jewish Diaspora in the Late Middle Ages
Inside the USSR: Life in a Soviet Republic
United States Government:
The Lavender Scare of the 1950s: Inside Executive Order 10450
First Ladies and Fashion Diplomacy
Professional Development Opportunities
Maryland Humanities staff members are available to provide free professional development and student outreach related to Teaching with Primary Sources and Teaching with Primary Sources Inquiry Kits, in addition to providing Maryland History Day support.
Meet the people who make this project possible!
Stephanie Boyle, Program Officer, Maryland Humanities
Lia Atanat, TPS Coordinator, Maryland Humanities
Karla Thompson, TPS Coordinator, Maryland Public Television
Leah Renzi, MSDE Coordinator of Social Studies
Teacher Researchers: Tom Crise, Anne Cook, Ann Morgan, Leah Olsen, Nancy Perlman, Randy Martinson, Jessica Western
Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.