Some students will know much about the Trail ... of Tears site with students for a collection of several public primary sources surrounding the Trail of Tears historical event.

We take these primary sources to schools and other sites, and we use them in the museum too. One of my treasured tour moment s came about because this coll ection exists . It was February 20, 2020 .

History is not a passive subject. Historians actively search out and analyze primary sources in order to tell the stories of our past. Behind those streamlined narratives are hundreds of messy ...