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Primary Sources

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  1. Primary Sources
  2. Real-World Data Sources
  3. Links to Resources
  4. Teaching with Primary Sources<


Primary Sources

100 Milestone Document
Links to documents from the National Archives with teacher section.

Ad*Access
Ads from the early 1900s by categories such as beauty, television, transportation, and WWII

African American Women at Duke University
Historical documents including slave letters.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Collection
Explore archives, art, artifcats, oral history, and photo collections.

American President
Historical documents about the presidency.

American Treasurers of the Library of Congress
Some of the most important materials from Library of Congress.

AskAsia: A K12 resources of the Asia Society
Links to primary sources, maps, statistics, art, and cultural information on Asia.

Booknotes
Archives of Booknotes interviews.

California Heritage Collection
More than 30,000 images from California history

Camp Harmony Exhibit from University of Washington Libraries
Resources on Japanese Internment camps during WW2.

Canada's Digital Collection
Lots of collections.

Woman and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
1440 primary documents and resources.

Cyberary of the Holocaust
Explore resources on the Holocaust.

Defining Documents
Documents and articles about document written for kids.

Digital Classroom from NARA
Lots of resources and activities.

Digital History
Links to primary sources, multimedia, and virtual exhibits

Digital Library from the New York Public Library
Includes documents, photos, and other materials.

Documenting the American South
First-person narratives, literature, letters, and documents.

Documents in the News from University of Michigan
Primary source documents related to current events.

Eugenics Archives
Over 2200 resources on the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

Franklin D. Roosevelt President Library
Online documents including sounds and video.

First Call: American Posters of World War I
Thirty great posters.

German Propanda Archive
Explore Nazi and East German Propagand posters and other resources.

Government Printing Office
Documents from all areas of the US government.

Great American Speeches
80 years of political oratory.

Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory
Graphics, maps, and accounts of the fire.

Great Speeches from History Channel
Famous speeches.

History and Politics Out Loud
Searchable archive of politically significant audio.

History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
Primary documents from 1000 to present.

Images from the History of Medicine
Nearly 60,000 photographs.

Images of American Political History
From 1750 to present.

Lost and Found Sound from National Public Radio
Sounds from America

Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
Photographs of the moon.

Making of America
Primary sources in American social history.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Projects
Papers, documents, and sounds.

NASA Image eXchange
Search for images.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
Great collection of tribal documents including constitutions and codes.

Nazi and East German Propaganda Guide Page
Documents, posters and other material.

New Deal Network
Documents, speeches, and other resources.

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Explore primary documents including letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census, and church records from two communities during the Civil War.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Historical and current maps from around the world.

Primary Documents in American History from Library of Congress
Includes documents from 1763-1815, 1815-1860, and 1860-1877.

Project Gutenberg
Free electronic books including many historical texts.

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library from Duke University
Digital collections and links.

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image
Lots of text and image collections.

SunSITE Digital Collections
Links to digital collections at Berkeley.

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
Primary sources documents on government.

Tinfoil
Early recorded sounds




Real-World Data Sources

42explore: Statistics and Probability
Scroll down to the data section.

Fed Stats
A gateway to statistics from 100 US Federal agencies

Geostat: Historical Census Browser
Census date from the 1800s and 1900s.

National Geophysical Data Center from NOAA
Data on a wide range of science topics.

Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude
Enter two coordinates and receive the flight distance. Or find distance between 326 different cities worldwide.






Statistics Links

Statistics at the State and Local Levels
Links to state and local statistics.

Statistics from Digital Librarian
Lots of links to statistic information.







Science Resources

Earth and Moon Viewer
View the world in different ways.

Measure 4 Measure
Websites that estimate, caculate, evaluate, and translate.

Molecular Expressions
Photos and videos of the microscopic world such as amoeba.




Links to Resources

42explore: Historical Maps
Links to map websites and activities.

Repositories of Primary Sources
Links to over 5300 websites with manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

Yahoo: Digital Libraries and Collections
Links to digital libraries and collections.




Teaching with Primary Sources and Data

American Memories from Library of Congress
Lots of lessons and examples.

Artifact and Analysis: A Teachers Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History
Strategies for incorporating historical artifacts into the classroom.

Digital Archives and Collections
Ideas for using primary resources.

Digital Librarian
Electronic texts and primary sources.

Document Analysis Worksheets from National Archives
Great worksheets for different types of historical documents, audios, and videos.

Do History
Learn to piece together the past from fragments that have survived. Explore an example, then create your own.

Edsitement Lesson Plans
Links to lots of lessons based on historical materials.

History Matters
Lots of lesson and teaching ideas for working with primary resources. Explores students as historians.

I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write a Letter (Grades 3-8)
Lesson about historic letters.

Primary Sources Research Colloquium
Learn about primary sources research.

Projects Using Primary Sources & Archived Collections from CIESE
Projects such as historical treasure chests, movie in the making, and population growth.

Strategies with Primary Sources
A few great strategies.

Teaching with Documents from National Archives
Lesson plans and resources.

Teaching with Documents
Document-based Questions and ideas for teaching.