Primary Resources

Essex County, MA Primary Sources

This is a page designed to help direct you to local Essex County primary sources and related materials. You can access lesson plans linked to these sources and created especially for the Essex LINCs seminars on the Lesson Plans page. Primary Sources listed here were located by our museum educator, Rebecca Zimmerman. Please contact her if you have any comments or questions regarding these documents. You may also want to contact the institutions which hold the originals of these materials directly.

Primary Sources from the Spring 2008 Seminars

Primary Resources for the Introduction to Primary Sources lesson - National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass. (February, 2008)

Primary Resources for the Why do We Have Government? lesson - Beverly Historical Society, Beverly, Mass. (March, 2008)

Primary Resources for the "I Can Make Myself Contented Most Anywhere", Changes Caused By the Industrial Revolution lesson - Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lawrence, Mass. (April, 2008)

Primary Resources for the Remember Me... lesson - Andover Historical Society, Andover, Mass. (May, 2008)

Primary Sources from the 2008 Summer Institute

This summer institute will take place from July 7 - 11, 2008. Lessons and primary sources will be posted shortly after the seminars.