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Education: Curriculum Resources for Teachers: Books

A guide to locating instructional materials for grades K-12

Primary Sources in Books

Books with Curr Res in front of the call number are located on the 2nd floor, ocean side, in the Curriculum Resources Collection.

  • Abraham Lincoln and his Era: Using the American Memory Project to Teach with Primary Sources.
    • Curr Res E 457 I74 2010
  • America Under Attack: Primary Sources.   
    • Curr Res HV 6432 A52 2002
  • American Civil Rights: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res E 184 A1 A56 1999
  • American Civil War: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res E 464 H55 2000
  • American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People.
    • Curr Res PS 662 A44 2001
  • American Revolution: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 203 B95 2003
  • American Revolution: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res E 203 A577 2000
  • Ancient Greek World.  
    • Curr Res DF 215 R633 2004
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.   
    • Curr Res D 810 J4 F715 1972
  • Arab American Voices.  
    • Curr Res E 184 A65 H36 2000
  • Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust.  
    • Curr Res PN 6071 H713 B424 1995
  • Bill of Rights: A History in Documents. 
    • Curr Res KF 4750 P274 2003
  • California History.  
    • Curr Res E 179.5 T43 v.10
  • Civil War: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 464 S48 2001
  • Cold War: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res D 842 W56 2000
  • Colonial America: A History in Documents.   
    • Curr Res E 187 G73 2003
  • Colonial America: Primary Sources. 
    • Curr Res E 187 S23 2000
  • Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the U.S.   
    • Curr Res E 453 M28 2003
  • Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers: Primary Documents on Events of the Period.
    • Curr Res E 187 C78 2000
  • Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 806 M43 2000
  • Ellis Island: A Primary Source History of an Immigrant’s Arrival in America.
    • Curr Res JV 6484 H68 2004
  • Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty.
    • Curr Res E 453 B68 2013
  • Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 59 F53 E53 2000
  • George Washington: The Writer…  
    • Curr Res E 312.66 G46 2003
  • Gilded Age: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 661 G45 2000
  • Gold Fever! Tales from the California Gold Rush.  
    • Curr Res F 865 G64 1999
  • Gold Rush: A Primary Source History of the Search for Gold in California.
    • Curr Res F 865 O36 2003
  • Holocaust (Primary Sourcebook Series).  
    • Curr Res D 804.19 H55 2006
  • Hope and Tears: Ellis Island Voices.
    • Curr Res JV 6484 S93 2012
  • I Love Yous are for White People: A Memoir.  
    • Curr Res F 869 L89 V537 2009
  • In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts with Commentary by Distinguished Americans.  
    • Curr Res E 457.92 2009b
  • In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century. 
    • Curr Res PS 661 I53 2000
  • IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq.  
    • Curr Res DS 79.76 I75 2009
  • Japanese American Internment Camps.  
    • Curr Res D 769.8 A6 J37 2001
  • Letters from Black America.
    • Curr Res E 184.6 L49 2009
  • Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary.
    • Curr Res E 457.905 F58 2008
  • Little Rock Nine: A Primary Source Exploration of the Battle for School Integration.
    • Curr Res F 419 L7 K78 2015
  • Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
    • Curr Res DT 516.828 B43 A3 2007
  • Making Freedom: African Americans in U.S. History. 
    • Curr Res E 184.7 M34 2004
  • Memories of Survival.   
    • Curr Res DS 135 P63 K7355 2005
  • Middle Ages: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res D 113 M49 2001
  • Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years.
    • Curr Res E 185.61 O827 2012
  • Oh, Freedom! : Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made it Happen.
    • Curr Res E 185.61 K523 1997
  • 100 Key Documents in American Democracy.  
    • Curr Res E 173 A15 1999
  • Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives.   
    • Curr Res E 173 U62 2003
  • Our Nation’s Archive: The History of the United States in Documents.    
    • Curr Res E 173 O77 1999
  • Powerful Words: More than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans.
    • Curr Res E 184.6 H83 2004
  • Presidents from Hoover through Truman, 1929-1953…   
    • Curr Res E 176.1 P2914 2002
  • Presidents from Reagan through Clinton, 1981-2001…  
    • Curr Res E 176.1 P922 2002
  • Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt through Coolidge, 1901-1929…  
    • Curr Res E 176.1 P9225 2002
  • Presidents from Washington through Monroe, 1789-1825…  
    • Curr Res E 176.1 S927 2002
  • Primary Source Accounts of the War of 1812.  
    • Curr Res E 354 B69 2006
  • Primary Sources (Indigenous Peoples of North America).  
    • Curr Res E 77 I49 2002
  • Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What we Eat.
    • Curr Res RA 645 P4 J3 2014b
  • Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.   
    • Curr Res DS 778.7 J53 1997
  • Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories.
    • Curr Res D 767.92 A714 2001
  • Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp.   
    • Curr Res D 769.8 A6 C67 2002
  • Renaissance and Reformation: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res CB 359 R465 2002
  • Slavery Throughout History: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res HT 863 S56 2000
  • Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Women?" Speech.
    • Curr Res E 185.97 T8 B74 2005
  • Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res E 447 W35 2001
  • Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.   
    • Curr Res DS 135 P63 M289 2000
  • Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust.   
    • Curr Res D 805.5 T54 T48 2011
  • "The President has been Shot:"  The Assasination of John F Kennedy.
    • Curr ResE 842.9 S95 2013
  • They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group.    
    • Curr Res HS 2330 K63 B37 2010
  • Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq.   
    • Curr Res DS 79.76 A38 2004
  • USKids History. Book of the American Civil War.  
    • Curr Res E 464 E38 1998
  • Vietnam War: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res DS 557.7 Y677 2002
  • Vietnam War: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res DS 557.4 H55 2001
  • Voices and Visions: A Collection of Primary Sources. 
    • Curr Res D 804.34 V65 1998
  • Voices from the Civil War: A Documentary History…  
    • Curr Res E 464 V6 1989
  • Voices from Vietnam.   
    • Curr Res DS 559.5 D46 1995
  • Westward Expansion: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res F 591 P46 2001
  • Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today.
    • Curr Res E 173 W78 1999
  • Women's Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History.  
    • Curr Res JK 1898 F76 1992
  • Words that Built a Nation: A Young Person’s Collection of Historic American Documents.
    • Curr Res E 173 M313 1999
  • World War I: A History in Documents.  
    • Curr Res D 505 C64 2002
  • World War I: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res D 522.7 P38 2001
  • World War II: Primary Sources.  
    • Curr Res D 743.7 W68 2000
  • Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo.   
    • Curr Res DR 1313.32 S27 F5513 1994