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Counter(ing) Narratives to the American Story with Ethnographic and Oral History Collections<\/p>\n
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Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) is the Library of Congress’ premier educational program, focused on helping educators enhance students\u2019 critical thinking, analysis skills, and content knowledge using the Library\u2019s collections of millions of digitized primary sources. The Local Learning project team offers teaching tools and materials that engage the digitally available archival holdings of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress alongside local and regional collections, bringing them into conversation with each other to create a fuller, more complex narrative of American communities, history, and people.<\/p>\n
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