Digital Snapshots

This exhibit includes educator resources and a general lesson plan appropriate for use in Mississippi Studies, U.S. History, and other middle and high school classrooms. In this lesson plan, teachers will find engaging activities and historical content related to the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs.

To understand the past and see its impact on the present, students should engage with primary sources from past events. For students to truly understand the documents and have the correct context, teachers must first lay the groundwork for this connection. The teacher should begin this lesson with a brief introduction about Eudora Welty’s life and career, as well as the historical context of her life. A short introduction to this collection and a list of additional resources is available here.

The selected items from the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs highlights Welty’s early lifetime and her photography career.

Use the button below to access the classroom activity, document and photograph analyses worksheets created by the National Archives, and learn how you can use the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs in your classroom.