Historical Sources for Use in Schools. Occasional Paper #74-2.

This handbook of historical sources for use in the school includes suggestions, leads, and examples, which serve as springboards to other sources, encouraging the teacher to consider various ways in which original source materials might be used in an instructional setting. The following categories are used as one way of looking at primary sources: written sources, both official and personal; oral sources, including interviews and commercially produced historical records and tapes of spoken work, songs, and music; artifacts; visual sources, including maps, paintings, sketches, etchings, prints, cartoons, posters, photographs, and films; the landscape; names, including surnames, place names, and street names. An analysis of the nature of these categories and suggestions for their use is amplified by examples of sources in each category and illustrations of their application to the design of teaching strategies and learning activities. Appended are references to further source materials and their use. (Author/JH)