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=**Primary Sources**=

What is a Primary Source? “Primary sources are the raw materials of history- original documents and object which were created at the time under study.” Library of Congress What is a Secondary Source?

The Library of Congress has a special website for students called Ameriaca's Story which uses primary sources and includes information (secondary sources) to help students learn about American History. Click this link to learn more about Primary Sources having to do with what was in Abraham Lincoln's pockets on the night he was assassinated. The Library of Congress's Wise Guide: What's in Your Pockets? America's Story from Library of Congress.

Watch this video from the Library of Congress to see the objects and hear why Abraham Lincoln may have had confederate money in his pocket the night he was assissinated. media type="custom" key="25749536" How did the Library of Congress get the contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets the night he was murdered? They were given to the librarian by President Lincoln's son Robert but for 30 years no one knew it! media type="custom" key="25749668" The items as they are stored at the Library of Congress.

An account of the President's Death and more.

After the President's death a manhunt went on looking for the man that killed President Lincoln. How do we know? Primary Sources- media type="custom" key="25749604" For nearly 150 years, a story circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. It was a secret, a family legend... Is something really written inside Abraham Lincoln's Pocket Watch? How do we know? Primary Sources- Here is a picture of the watch itself found on this website. The Picture comes from the National Musuem of History.



media type="custom" key="25760882" Want to see the actual message written inside the watch? A Secondary Source- YouTube presents a Primary Source- the watch itself! media type="custom" key="25761000"

How did President Lincoln learn to write and how do we know? Primary Sources- media type="custom" key="25749572"

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POWER Library and Primary Sources:
**Read Full-Text Articles Online from Pennsylvania Newspapers** Did you know that all staff articles from the following PA newspapers are available online in full-text via the POWER Library? Beaver County Times, The (Beaver) Citizens' Voice, The (Wilkes-Barre) Daily Courier (Connellsville) Daily Review, The (Towanda) Erie Times-News (Erie) Leader Times (Kittanning) Philadelphia Daily News, The (PA) Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) Pittsburgh Tribune Review (PA) Reading Eagle (Reading) Sentinel, The (Carlisle) Times Leader, The (Wilkes-Barre) Times-Tribune, The (Scranton) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tribune-Review (Greensburg) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Valley Independent (Monessen) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Valley News Dispatch (Tarentum)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">They are available in the Newspaper Source Plus e-resource. This e-resource provides the latest news from the leading national (U.S.) and international news sources and contains over 1,000 leading full-text newspapers, providing access to millions of full-text articles. In addition to PA newspapers, you will also find: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">USA Today <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The New York Times <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Washington Post <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Times (UK) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">San Francisco Chronicle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Washington Times (DC) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Sydney Morning Herald <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Christian Science Monitor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Toronto Star <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And more

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Famed Photographer Ansel Adams donated his entire collection of pictures from the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II to the Library of Congress- here is the announcement. Here is the Library of Congress Cite with all of the information.