[caption id="attachment_9298" align="alignright" width="300"] FDR Inaugural Program[/caption] Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address is one of the most important speeches in United States History. Faced with the turmoil of the Great Depression, FDR laid out a plan for resurrecting the failing economy and the alleviating the suffering of the American people.

[caption id="attachment_9281" align="alignright" width="300"] Destitute pea picker illustrates migrant workers in California during the 1930s.

[caption id="attachment_9272" align="alignright" width="300"] Print showcasing immigrants arriving from many nations using a variety of transportation methods (c.1882).[/caption] Developed as part of the America Comes to Age Workshop, the following lesson plan was prepared for elementary students and focuses on est

The Emerging America program at the Educational Collaborative in collaboration with the Library of Congress and Special Education in Institutional Settings (SEIS) is pleased to announce a new primary source set on the the Cold War Era! The following set makes available a wide range of primary source resources from the Library of Congress on a number of topics from the years between 1945 and 198

[caption id="attachment_9228" align="alignright" width="300"] Fourteen year older spinner working at the Brazos Valley Cotton Mill in West, Texas (1913).[/caption] Developed as a result of participating in the History in Motion program, a collaboration between Emerging Am

[caption id="attachment_9219" align="alignright" width="300"] Excelsior Iron Works[/caption] The Emerging America program at the Educational Collaborative, in collaboration with the Library of Congress and Special Education in Institutional Settings (SEIS), is pleased to announce a new primary source set on Economic Growth between 1800 and

[caption id="attachment_9186" align="alignright" width="300"] Springfield, Massachusetts in 1850[/caption] The following lesson on the industrial growth of Springfield, Massachusetts during the 19th century was created during the National Endowment for Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop – Forge o

[caption id="attachment_9184" align="alignright" width="300"] Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1632[/caption] Produced during the National Endowment for Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop – Forge of Innovation: The Springfield Armory and the Genesis of American Industry, in the summer of 2015, the follo

[caption id="attachment_9182" align="alignright" width="300"] Bird's Eye View of Holyoke, Massachusetts (1877)[/caption] A research unit and project developed during the National Endowment for Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop – Forge of Innovation: The Springfield Armory and t

[caption id="attachment_9179" align="alignright" width="300"] Women working in ordnance plants during WWI.