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 Fall 2008 Seminars

Primary Resources for the Introduction to Primary Sources lesson - National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass. (October, 2008) - a repeat of February, 2008 with the addition of Electoral College Ballot Counts

Primary Resources for the How Do Governments Work? lesson - Gloucester City Hall, Gloucester, Mass. (November, 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. (Conducted in December, 2008 - a repeat of the April, 2008 workshop)

Primary Resources for the Remember Me... (gravestone) lesson - Beverly Historical Society, Beverly, Mass. (January, 2009)

Primary Sources from the Spring 2009 Seminars

Primary Resources for the Introduction to Primary Sources lesson - National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass. (February, 2009) - a re-working of October, 2008 with the Eagle sublesson, Electoral College Ballot Counts, and the addition of the Two Friends Schooner, slavery lesson.

Primary Resources for the How Do Governments Work? lesson - Gloucester City Hall, Gloucester, Mass. (March, 2009) - new material from Haverhill & Lynn

Primary Resources for the If the Shoe Fits... lesson - Haverhill Historical Society, Haverhill, Mass. (April, 2009)

Primary Resources for the Remember Me... (gravestone) lesson - Marblehead Museum and Historical Society, Marblehead, Mass. (May, 2009) - a re-working of the January 2009 lesson

Primary Sources from the 2008 and 2009 Summer Institute - Governing in New England and the United States

Primary Resources for the Creating a Town Meeting lesson - Rocky Hill Meetinghouse, Amesbury, Mass. (July, 2008/2009)

Primary Resources for the Declaring Independence -- How Members of Local Communities Chose to Act lesson - Marblehead Museum and Historical Society, Marblehead, Mass. (July, 2008/2009)

Primary Resources for the Seals from the National to the Local lesson - National Archives, Waltham, Mass. (July, 2008)

Primary Resources for the Geometry of Democracy lesson - Hamilton Hall, Salem, Mass. (July, 2008/2009)

Primary Resources for the Forgotten Populations: Working Towards Freedom Through Government lesson - Museum of African American History, Boston, Mass. (July, 2008/2009)

Primary Resources for the Towards Separation of Church and State lesson - Judith Sargent Murray House, Gloucester, Mass. (July, 2009)

Primary Sources from the Fall 2009 Seminars

Primary Resources for the Introduction to Primary Sources lesson - National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass. (October, 2009) - a repeat of February, 2009 with the addition of Regional Trading Focus

Primary Resources for the Seals from the National to the Local lesson - Marblehead Museum and Historical Society, Marblehead, Mass. (November, 2009)

Primary Resources for the If the Shoe Fits... lesson - Haverhill Historical Society, Haverhill, Mass. (December, 2009)