Primary Resources

• Library of Congress Learning Page

Great resources and lessons

• National Archives Educator Page

Main NARA site

• National Archives Teaching with Documents

Document analysis & lessons

• DocsTeach

Interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials in a variety of media from the National Archives

• Teaching with Primary Sources Teacher Network

Coloborate with other social studies teachers

• Stanford History Education Group

Reading Like a Historian lessons, Beyond the Bubble assessments, Civic Online Reseasoning

• History Matters

Primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history

• Making Sense of Evidence

Providing hands-on tutorials for using primary sources

• Making of America

A digital library of US primary sources from the Antebellum Period through Reconstruction

• The Authentic History Center

Amazing text and audio files such as letters, diaries, political cartoons, music and speeches from the colonial period to present

• Our Documents

Created by the NARA, this site has digital forms of the 100 most important US documents and related lesson plans

• The Avalon Project

World and US documents from the 18th to the 21st centuries

• Digital History

A great source of digital documents and lesson plans

• Historical Thinking Matters

Designed to teach students how to critically read US History primary sources

• Historical Voices

A rich set of exhibits and educational curricula that fully incorporate sound files

• HSI: Historical Scene Investigation

Designed for social studies teachers looking for a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom

• World History Sources

Sources, unpacking evidence, case studies, analyzing documents, teaching aids