This is a lesson introducing you to the basics of archival research. How do we move beyond the standard secondary source based research of many high school projects? How can we use available archives to tell a more complete and unique story through primary sources? Links in the slides:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
https://library.qc.cuny.edu/
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/08/22/how-to-search-nytimes
http://tenement.pastperfectonline.com/
https://rare.library.cornell.edu/
Further reading: https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/UsingArchives_Final.pdf
