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• Childhood Lost:Child Labor During Industrial Revolution
• Coles County: Taught with Primary Sources
• Corp of Discovery:
  Revealing the American West
• Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources
• Illinois: Taught with Primary Sources
• Presidential Campaigns: Packaging the Presidents
• Underground Railroad:
  A Path to Freedom
• Verse and Chorus
• WWII
• Top Topics

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• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tools 
• Classroom Activities
• Constant Motion:
  The Job of Railway Post Office Clerks
• Constitution Day
• Library of Congress Site Update "Cheat Sheet" (pdf)
• Lincoln Assassination CSI Activity
• Patriotic Songs
• • September 11
  • Teaching with Lincoln
  • Veterans Day

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• loc.gov Teacher PageAbraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Teaching Coles County with Primary Sources 

Introduction | Primary Sources and Analysis Tools |
Library of Congress Resources | Primary Source Set 

Choose a link below to access printable PDF versions of these materials including additional information, color images and citations.
Teaching Coles County with Primary Sources Resource Booklet 
Primary Source Set

Primary Source Set

This Primary Source Set is merely a sample of resources from the digitized collections of the Library of Congress.
 

The Coles County Court House in Charleston, Ills. (1858) Prints and Photographs	(A) cliff (on the Embarras River), Charleston, Illinois. American Memory	Smith, J. W. Birds eye view of Mattoon, Illinois. (1884) American Memory	Abraham Lincoln, (May-June 1860) (Autobiographical Notes; copy in hand of John G. Nicolay) American Memory
Bands on parade outstanding eastern Illinois high school bands. (1940). American Memory	The copperhead plan for subjugating the South/F.B. (1864) Prints and Photographs	The great American What is it? chased by Copper-heads. (1863). Prints and Photographs	The copperhead party-infavor of a vigorous prosecution of peace! (1863). Prints and Photographs
Dennis F. Hanks to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, April 05, 1864 (Family affairs) American Memory	This rambling vernacular house was built along the Rockfish River by Edward Coles (1786-1868), the second Governor of Illinois from 1822-1826. American Memory	The Illinois Globe, (newspaper). September 5, 1846. American Memory	The Republican, (newspaper). August 28, 1846. American Memory
House where Abraham Lincoln's father lived and died, in Coles co., Illinois, 9 miles south of Charleston.  Prints and Photographs	Stephen A. Douglass to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, July 30, 1858 (Debates) American Memory	Senate Bill no. 56, (1929) American Memory	Charleston Illinois Literary Association to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, September 28, 1859 (invitation). American Memory