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GENERAL AMERICAN HISTORY
Facing History and Ourselves
History Now: American History Online
ABC-CLIO resources
America: Past and Present (textbook) Student Resources
Facts on File
History MattersEyewitness to History
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
American History: pre-Columbia to the New Millenium (US History.org)
EARLY AMERICA
American Folklife Center
The National Security Archive
Colonial Williamsburg
Archiving Early America
American Life Histories
A Treasury of Primary Documents pertaining to early U.S. History
Letters between the founder's of our nation / NARA
CIVIL WAR
Civil War Primary Documents
Civil WarPoetry of the American Civil War
U.S. DOCUMENTS
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
STATES and REGIONS
Texas Heritage Online
DocSouth Collections: UNC Chapel Hill Library
Wisconsin Historical Society
SLAVERY
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
WARS
Letters from America’s Wars
WORLD WAR I
Books read by soldiers during World War I
CALIFORNIA HISTORY
CIVIL RIGHTS
PBS: Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
American Jewish Committee
Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute
AMERICAN POP CULTURE
Authentic History Center
POLITICS / POLITICAL CARTOONS / ADS
Herblock's History
The Living Room Candidate
NATIVE AMERICANS
Chickasaw history
University of Arkansas @ Little Rock collections
University of WA: Native American primary documents
Laws & treaties from History Matters
Cherokee Nation (click on 'history')
Library of Congress Native Americans
Oral Histories from the TRAIL OF TEARS
PRESIDENTS
Library of Congress Presidential Campaign Posters
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THINGS TO DO WITH PRIMARY DOCS:
Classroom activities using primary docs
There are lots of ideas here - for all grades
Links to lesson plans inside other sites
Many sites have extensive lesson plans - explore them!
Copyright free images
Use these with your assignments
Background tools
pathfinder, info cycle, citing, and back up concepts
Saving primary docs today
activities you can use with your class to
save today's primary documents
"Unpack" primary docs
Activities to help students understand primary sources
Common Core and Primary Docs
an essay by Rich Cairn of the LIbrary of Congress
DOCS FROM NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Presidential Libraries & the presidents
Library of Congress
Smithsonian
University and College collections
Historical Sites
DOCUMENT SITES BY TOPIC
Visual: images and movies
includes art, movie clips, television ads, print ads
Audio: speaking and music
all things audio including speeches, music, radio
Costume and Fashionfrom around the world
Foreign Relations and Diplomacy
foreign relations archives
Food
recipes and kitchen gadgets
Legislation and Government
official government documents
Newspapers and Periodicals
archival newspapers & magazines
Stats: find people
census data & more
U.S. History
special topics in American history
World History
world history covered
CALIFORNIA Primary DocsCA Primary Docs
STATESStates
LEGISLATION - GOVERNMENT and patents
HISTORICAL SITES online
gov docs from non governmental sources
FOOD
DOCS for your phone or iPAD
Assessment
SCIENCE
INQUIRY lesson starters
Acknowledgments
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