Primary and Secondary Sources

Historical Fiction
Social Studies/Language Arts Unit
Mary Reger

(EAM = Early American Museum in Mahomet, Illinois)

Introduction Lesson:

Diary page from Benjamin Harris’s diary (EAM)

Letters from soldiers during the Civil War (EAM)

Painting of Bunker Hill

Photo of Benjamin Harris’s first and second home (EAM)

Diaries (EAM)

Zay Wright’s diary

B. F. Harris’s journal

Letters (EAM)

Local letters from Civil War soldiers

Advertisements (EAM)

Tailoring, Painting Ads – January 1860

Ads for Whitly Reaper, Manny’s Reaper – March 1858

Ads for Civil War Soldiers in Champaign – July 18, 1861

Ad for store during the Civil War

Newspaper Articles (EAM)

Article about ladies relief society for the Civil War, November and December 1861

Information about butchering during the Depression

Information about canning during the Depression

Information about gathering goal during the Depression

Information about hobos during the Depression

Photos/Paintings

settler children sledding (EAM)	settler man and children in farm fields (EAM)	girl with rifle (Zay Wright) (EAM)
Woman canning in the Depression (EAM)	Civil War soldier-Samuel Busey (EAM)	African American Civil War Soldier from Illinois-Erasmus Green (EAM)
West Urbana – Settler/Pioneer period (EAM)	Gun Crew – Civil War (book # 1)	Drummers – Civil War (book # 1)
“Come Join Us Brothers” – Civil War (book # 1)	Pontoon Bridge – Shermans’s Seventeenth Corps – Civil War (book # 1)	Molly Pritchard – Revolutionary War (book # 4)
Men Falling from Horses – Revolutionary War – (book # 4)	Woman With Gun – Revolutionary War – (book # 4)	Surrender of Yorktown – Revolutionary War – (book # 4)
Boy collecting coal during the Depression (EAM)	Solomon, a Civil War Soldier (EAM)	Patriot –Revolutionary War (book # 4)

Comparison Photos

1800’s kitchen (book # 3)	1800’s parlor/living room (book # 3)
2000’s kitchen (personal)	2000’s parlor/living room (personal)

Photos of Artifacts

Drinking gourd from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Tree candle holder from Revolutionary War period (EAM)	Steam iron from Depression period (EAM)
Washer from Depression period (EAM)	Phonograph from Depression period (EAM)	78 record from Depression period (EAM)
Folding bed from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Sewing machine from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Butter churn from settler/pioneer period (EAM)
Games from Depression period (EAM)	Rifle and rabbit skins from the Depression period (EAM)	Plow from settler/pioneer period (EAM)
Anvil from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Stove from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Inkwell from settler/pioneer period (EAM)

Musket from Revolutionary War period (EAM)	Civil War canteen (EAM)	Powder horn from settler/pioneer period (EAM)
Powder barrel from settler/pioneer period (EAM)	Civil War musket (EAM)	Surgical Kit from Civil War (EAM)
Civil War candle (EAM)	Civil War uniform (EAM)	Shackles from Civil War (EAM)
	Wig from Revolutionary War period (EAM)

Photos of Zay Wright

Zay Wright on a swing (EAM)	Zay Wright next to a horse with a rifle (EAM)	Zay Wright standing next to a horse (EAM)
Zay Wright playing dress up (EAM)		Zay Wright on a horse with a friend (EAM)