Primary Sources

Be sure to check out the primary sources below. Each one contains links to common core curriculum that parallels the information in a fun and unique way for your students.

Ancient History

Ancient Egypt

 

The Declaration of Innocence from the The Egyptian Book of the Dead 

 

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Ancient Greece

Herodotus: The History, VII.170-171 

The Life of Thesius by Plutarch

Pericles' Funeral Oration

On the Kings of Sparta by Herodotus, From The History of Persian Wars, Book VI, 56-60 430 B.C.E.

The Republic: The Philosopher King by Plato, 360 B.C.E 


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Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria, Ugarit, Phoenicia, Persia, and Hittites) 

Laments for Ur 1 & II, Ancient Sumerian poems, tell the story of the destruction of the city. The poems were inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform script, the earliest form of writing.

Babylonian Proverbs from the Library of Ashurbanipal, c. 1600 BCE  


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Ancient Rome

12 Tables of Roman Law 450 B.C.E

On the Laws by Marcu Tillius Cicero

The Christians From the Annuls by Cornelius Tacitus
 

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U.S. History

U.S. History Primary Sources

Mayflower Pact

Jefferson's Inaugural Address

Washington's Farewell Address

The Monroe Doctrine

The English Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights

The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

The Emancipation Proclamation

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments 


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World History

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