America’s Sport: Baseball Primary Sources at the Library of Congress T EACHING WITH P RIMARY S OURCES A CROSS T ENNESSEE
T HE L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS LOVES baseball! Contains the world’s largest collection of baseball sources Has digitized thousands of baseball-related primary sources
New book: Baseball Americana (2009)
Search Today in History for “baseball”
Baseball primary sources Search American Memory – Search Prints & Photographs – Check “baseball” under Browse by Topic – Browse these American Memory collections:
Baseball Cards,
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s- 1960s
History of the American West, : Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
Spalding Base Ball Guides,
Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI,
Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View,
Early Motion Pictures,
For Teachers:
Baseball and American culture
Stacey Graham, Project Coordinator Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee (615) Teaching with Primary Sources is a program of the Library of Congress, and is administered in Tennessee by the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University.