Engage students in learning about Congress, representative democracy, and citizen participation.
Find out how to use digital primary source materials of the Library of Congress and the Center on Congress.
Primary Sources Can Be...
Documents, photographs, maps, speeches, cartoons, letters, songs, journals/diaries, autobiographies, artifacts, and more.
Look Close: It’s Living History
Interested in getting the real story about historical events? You can do it with primary sources. Primary sources give you the individual viewpoint of an observer or participant.
