National History Day uses a theme each year; this year it is "The Individual in History." I attended a session with a woman from the National Archives about using document analysis with our students. We analyzed several documents related to leaders from our history. We looked at documents related to:
James Montgomery Flagg - creator of Uncle Sam image
Irving Berlin - draft card at age 29 and wealthy
Julia McWilliams (Child) - citation for her excellent service to a gov't organization
Fidel Castro - a letter from 12 y.o. Castro to Pres. Roosevelt asking for $10
John Glenn and Ted Williams - in the same fighting squadron during the Korean war [at that time, everyone knew Ted Williams was a famous baseball player but John Glenn hadn't become known yet]
David F. Rogers - regular guy who writes a letter to a chairman about his concern about highways disturbing historic places
The "Digital Vault" at the Archives website sounds like a very cool searchable database; we couldn't access it because of the bandwith problems, but it sounds like documents are tagged and when you look at one resource, several related documents pop up as well. Definitely need to check it out further: Digital Vault.
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