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Literature and Primary Sources

Social studies isn’t extra — it's a powerful vehicle for literacy instruction that makes learning more meaningful!

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Primary Level Literature

Urban/Rural Communities

Look Where We Live!
Look Where We Live!
Saving the Day

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Global Communities

A Ticket Around the World

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Geography and Mapping

How I Learned Geography
This Land is Your Land
Follow that Map!
Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island
In New York

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Intermediate Level Literature

Colonial Times

Peter Stuyvesant

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American Revolution

A Spy Called James
Toliver's Secret
Phoebe the Spy
Heroines of the American Revolution

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Civil War

The Civil War: Brother Against Brother
Pink and Say
Guts for Glory

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Slavery

Henry's Freedom Box

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Industrialization and Child Labor

The Bobbin Girl

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Desegregation

Separate is Never Equal

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Erie Canal

The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal

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Environment

River of Dreams
The Blizzard of 1888
Once Upon a Snowstorm

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New York State Symbols

Her Right Foot
New York Facts and Symbols