Primary sources are powerful teaching tools, but teachers don’t always know where to start when planning inquiry-based primary source lessons. Join me as I plan a Zoom-In Inquiry lesson using primary sources from the Library of Congress.

For Black Americans before and after Emancipation, reading and writing were “fugitive” acts that pushed back against White Supremacy.

Sojourner Truth never learned to read or write, but her incredible power to communicate complicates our understanding of what it means to be literate.

Royal transitions have a lot to teach us about patterns and deviations across historical contexts.