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Our Favorite Posts: Teaching About September 11 Using Primary Sources from Library of Congress

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Part of the power of teaching with primary sources comes from their immediacy—eyewitness accounts of historic events can have an emotional impact that secondary sources might lack. This is especially true of primary sources relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.