Websites+for+primary+resources

This page is organized into six sections. The goal of this page is to provide teachers with websites that can be easily utilized with primary resources.

1. Teaching with Documents

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
 * 100 Milestone Documents"

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
 * American Memory-The Library of Congress

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
 * History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web-George Mason University

http://www.archives.gov/education/
 * National Archives and Records Administration-Educators and Students section

http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
 * National History Day

http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/documents/
 * Save Our Documents-History Channel

2. Diaries

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h281t.html
 * Africans in America-PBS

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm
 * Colonial Williamsburg Trades-Colonial Williamsburg

http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/1770s/phutchinson.html
 * A Debate on Natural Rights from Hutchinson's 'A Dialogue Between an American and a European Englishman.-Assumption College

http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/
 * Massachusetts Historical Society

3.Travelogues

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/wauhtml/aipnhome.html
 * American Indians of the Pacific Northwest-American Memory, Library of Congress

http://www.americanjourneys.org/
 * American Journeys:Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement-Wisconsin Historical Society

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/1htnhtm1/htnhome.html
 * American Notes:Travels in America, 1750-1920-American Memory, Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
 * California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900-American Memory, Library of Congress

4. Letters

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
 * America's First Look into the Camera: 1839-1862-American Memory, Library of Congress

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
 * Battle Lines:Letters from America's Wars-Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_letters.html
 * Civil War Letters-by: Joan Brodsky Schur-PBS

http://www.masshist.org/DIGITALADAMS/AEA/Letter/
 * Correspondence Between John Adams and Abigail Adams-Massachusetts Historical Society

5. Newspapers

http://www.nytimes.com/
 * Article Archive 1851-Present-New York Times

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/socialstudies/Vote2004/newswriting.html
 * Be the Press:Local Interviews, National News-By: Syd Golston and Lisa Greeves-NewsHour Extra, PBS

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/
 * The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords-PBS

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
 * The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902-Brooklyn Public Library

6. Election Speeches

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/index/html
 * American Experience:The Presidents

http://www.americanpresident.org/
 * The AmericanPresent.org-University of Virginia

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm
 * American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank-By: Michael E. Eidenmuller

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/
 * America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library-Duke University