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
September 1, 2018
By: Marissa Vassari
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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.

Global Engagement
Issues in Philanthropy
Evolution of a Foundation: an Institutional History of the Rockefeller Foundation
One of the first large-scale philanthropic foundations in the United States was created out of industrial wealth and came to reach around the globe.