Sources & Evidence


Main Street, Mechanicsville, Iowa (1908)

Examples:

  • What are primary sources? (1997)
  • Examining the sources (2003)
  • How to Read Sources: Basic Questions

  • Practice Source Interpretation (Powerpoint)
  • Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad (2002)
  • Who Killed Homer? (1998)
  • Schools and Students in Industrial Society (1998)
  • "If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall" (1990)
  • "Stones, Bones, and Early Man," National Geographic (1985)
  • Moon Rocks (1970)
  • The Evening Sentinel (November 22, 1963)
  • The Communist Squeeze (18 November, 1952)
  • Rat Poison Wanted, War Production Board (1943)
  • Dr. Pepper Advertisement (1943)
  • Deliver Us from Dictators! (1935)
  • History & Rhymes of the Lost Battalion (1921)
  • "Over The Top" (1917)
  • Destroy This Mad Brute! (1917)
  • The History of the Russo-Japanese War (1905)
  • The Bear: "I've struck a hornet's nest now, sure!" (1904)
  • "The Bloody Massacre" by Paul Revere (March 5, 1770)
  • Codex Telleriano-Remensis (ca. 1565)
  • Dante's Inferno, Canto XII (ca. 1321)