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PRIMARY DOCUMENT SOURCES

DocsTeach (National Archives)


America in Class (National Humanities Center): Collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards

100 Milestone Documents (www.ourdocuments.gov):  A cooperative effort of National History Day, National Archives and Records Administration and USA Freedom Corps.

Online Exhibits (from the National Archives)

Spartacus Educational:  A very extensive site, and may take some time for you to narrow down and locate the primary sources you will need.


Avalon Project (Yale Law School): Documents in law, history and diplomacy



Primary Documents Online (California State University San Marcos Library)


Prints &Photographs Online Catalog (New York Public Library)


American Memory (Library of Congress): Find links to their collections.  Please notice they have a link to "List All Collections" and a link to "Some Collections Have Moved."

Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina)

New Deal Network: Educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s.



Smithsonian Source (Resources for Teaching American History)

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Education materials for K-12 teachers

A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents: (The University of Oklahoma Law Center)

The Valley of the Shadow: ( University of Virginia) Learn about the impact of the Civil War on Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia. 


Jim Crow Laws and and African American Discrimination (Library of Congress and Middle Tennessee State University)

Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts (Library of Congress)  Lesson on using personal primary source documents and artifacts.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum: High school lesson plans using primary sources such as objects, documents and oral history.

The White House (The White House Historical Association): Classroom lessons using primary document sources.

Many Pasts (George Mason University - History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the web)