Grades 4-8. This unit guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching about primary sources, and how to evaluate and cite sources, do document analysis, and formulate and find answers to a research question.
Archival Education
How To Do Research
Explore Further
New Research: Nixon’s Latin American Policy, Failed Yellow Fever Eradication, Mexican Fellows, and Nigerian Public Health
Our New Research series offers readers a venue to take a peek at recent archival research at RAC. It presents newly published reports submitted by RAC travel stipends recipients who have pursued their studies using our collections. In this edition of our series, the researchers’ reports showcase how our collections document events and people’s lives…
New Research
New Research: Admissions Testing, Experimental Cinema, “Creative Capitalism,” and UN Civil Religion
Reports in this round-up draw on materials from Rockefeller family archives, the American International Association for Economic and Social Development, and the Ford Foundation.
Education & Knowledge
Science & Innovation
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Birth of Molecular Biology
A new program in the natural sciences increased funding and attention to the life sciences, and coined a new term along the way.