Grades 4-8. The primary sources in this set can be used for inquiry-based learning exercises and projects. Each document falls under the umbrella topic of voter education. Suggested projects that make use of this set’s primary sources are included for the educator as a springboard for research-based projects.

Archival Education
Voter Education
June 1, 2018
By: Marissa Vassari

Education Program Manager, Rockefeller Archive Center
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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.

Education & Knowledge
Global Engagement
Social Sciences
Building Global Understanding: Area Studies, Language, and History
Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.

Arts & Culture
“A Very Broad Field”: Building the Rockefeller Foundation’s Humanities Program
The Rockefeller Foundation evolved to bring the arts and humanities together, from classical archaeology to contemporary museums.