The Internet provides teachers and students an opportunity to access primary sources that they normally would not be able to see. There is a wealth of original documents including letters, pictures, diaries, journals, etc. Use the The Historian's Sources Lesson Overview, Using Primary Sources in the Classroom, or Using Primary Sources on the Web to introduce students to primary sources.
Use this worksheet as you review the sites.
Abraham
Lincoln Papers (6-12)
Alexander
Graham Bell Family Papers (3-12)
American
Memories Project
American
Memories Learning Page
Lesson
Framework (K-12)
Using
Primary Sources in the Classroom (K-12)
The
Historian's Sources Lesson Overview
Primary
Source Research in Elementary School
Jackie
Steals Home (9-12)
Nothing
to Fear but Fear Itself (5-8)
In
Congress Assembled: Continuity and Change in the Governing of the United
States (5-12)
Research
Guide (6-12)
Today
in History
Visions
In the Dust: A Child's Perspective of the Dust Bowl (6-8)
"Women,
Their Rights and Nothing Less" (9-12)
American
Posters of World War One
American
Treasures of the Library of Congress
Archives
of the West (6-12)
Arizona
State Library, Archives and Public Records
ArtsEdge
Trajan’s
Rome: The Man, The City, The Empire
At
Home in the Heartland Online (3-12)
Balancing
Three Branches at Once: Our System of Checks and Balances (3-5)
The
Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional? (6-8)
Celebrating
Sondheim (4-12)
Civil
War Tressures (K-12)
Dear
Mrs. Roosevelt
Digging
Up Artifacts On Line
The
Digital Classroom
Teaching
with Documents Lesson Page
Exhibit
Hall (K-12) - A wealth of pictures.
History
in the Raw - Discusses the importance of using primary sources in education.
Document
Analysis Worksheets
Digital
History - Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
Digital
Imaging Project - Art historical images of sculptures and architecture
Do History
Using
Primary Sources
Documenting
the American South (7-12)
Douglass:
Archives of American Public Address
The
Encyclopaedia Britannica Guide to Black History (6-12)
Eyewitness
Great
Speeches
Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidental Library and Museum (K-12)
Guides
for Using Primary Sources with Students
HarpWeek-Explore
History
Historic
American Sheet Music (K-12)
History and
Politics Out Loud
The
History Channel's Classroom Ideas
If
a Picture's Worth a Thousand Words... (6-12)
I'm
Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter (3-5)
Images
of African Americans from the 19th Century (K-12)
Images
of American Political History
Images
of the Southwest
Jamestown
Changes (3-5)
Light
in the Storm: Civil War Music (3-6)
Lost
and Found Sound
Making
of America
Marketing
Twain (7-12)
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
NASA Image
Exchange
New Deal
Of
Human Bondage (6-12)
Primary
Source
Primary
Sources on the Web
Primary
Sources on the Web #2
Projects
using Primary Sources
Repositories
of Primary Sources
Salem
Witch Trials (6-12)
Slave
Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
(3-5)
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
Straight
to the Source (6-12)
Time
Photo Essays
Top
100 Speeches of the 20th Century
Turn-of-the-Century
Child: Examine their Faces (4-8)
USDA
Historical Pictures
US National
Archives and Records Administration
Virtual
Jamestown (3-12)
Web de
Anza (3-12)
What
Was Columbus Thinking? (3-5)
With
Miles to Go Before I Sleep...