History 3090

Primary Documents

Choose one. Explore. Connect the primary sources to a section of Huck's Raft.

• Selections from the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne, 1800 (published 1881)
• Mary Paul, letters from the Lowell Mills, 1845-48
•  Frederick Douglass - Childhood in slavery: Autobiography, chapters 1-3
• Zitkala-Sa, "School Days of an indian Girl," 1900
• Florence Kelley, "The Federal Goverment and the Working Children," 1906
• Looking Back Eighty Years, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
• Letters from children to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1930s
• Henry A. Girous remembering Claude Brown's, 1965 book Manchild in the Promised Land
• D. James Romero, "Adulthood? Later, Dude," 1997
• Senate Hearing on the Effects of Television Violence on Children, 2007
• From Scholastic: Meet Young Immigrants