The Major Sources:

 

The National Archives: Primary Sources for Educators and Students

• Guide for Educators and Students
• How to Search in the ARC (Archival Research Catalog)
• Democracy Starts Here (video)
• 100 Milestone Documents
• Online Exhibit Hall
• Teaching with Documents Lesson Plans

 

The Library of Congress American Memory Project

• The Learning Page
• Teaching with Primary Sources Program
• Professional Development Modules
• Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers
• Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
• American Treasures of the Library of Congress
• Library of Congress FlickR PhotoStream
• Rebecca Amerson regularly posts Look What I Found! highlighting items from the LOC on the GLMA blog.

 

Digital Library of Georgia

• Collections A-Z
• Georgia Reference Shelf
• Civil Rights Digital Library

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Other Sources: 

Awesome Stories

You have to equest a free academic membership to access all of the resources.

 

Early American Digital Library

 

Archiving Early America

 

Making of America

 

Respositories of Primary Sources: Eastern United States and Canada (includes Georgia; the link to all regions is here)

 

Discoverers’ Web: Primary Sources 

 

The Valley of the Shadow (Civil War)

 

Documenting the American South

 

The Vincent Voice Library (sound files) 

 

American Women’s History: Digital Collections of Primary Sources

 

Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories

 

Civil War Women

 

Holocaust Encyclopedia (This is the direct link to the collections and archives; Anne Frank: The Writer is another excellent source)

 

AMCDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History

 

EuroDocs (European History)

 

World War I Primary Sources (Nice example of use of a wiki)

 

Life.com (more contemporary primary sources from the famous magazine; see related article at Edutopia here)

 

Perseus 4.0 (all things ancient)

 

Famous Trials

 

History and Politics Outloud

 

American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches

 

Lost and Found Sound (NPR)

 

Ad Access

 

EDISTEment (National Endowment for the Humanities)

 

Springfield Township High School Virtual Library: Primary Sources

 

Primary Source Learning

 

American Experience (PBS) for Teachers

 

Center for Innovation in Science and Engineering Education Primary Source Projects

 

Document Based Questions; see also the DBQ Project and Historical Thinking Matters

 

Primary Access

This Web 2.0 tool allows you to create digital stories from primary sources. Very nifty!