The adoption of Common Core State Standards presents the social studies with an opportunity and a challenge. Common Core State Standards focus on college and career readiness. The focus on college and career readiness is a challenge because the civic education goal of social studies may be lost or overlooked. The opportunity is that social studies is one of those other areas that must be used to help develop literacy. The goal of this paper is to discuss how to use social studies texts, specifically primary sources related to Susan B. Anthony’s trial, to meet literacy and social studies goals.