Flickr: The Commons
Since launching in 2008 with the Library of Congress, the Flickr Commons has been sharing hidden treasures from the world’s photography archives, with over 100 members.
Primary Sources
World Digital Library Home
the World Digital Library was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.
Digital Collections | Library of Congress
collections of various primary sources from around the United States; can be filtered by document type, topic, collection and more
Volunteer Voices Collection | Libraries
Volunteer Voices provides access to digitized primary sources, such as photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, and other artifacts, documenting the history and culture of Tennessee. The collection includes materials from archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums from across the state.
Manufacturing Impact: Why We Digitize | The New York Public Library
RT @LibSkrat: Manufacturing Impact: Why We Digitize | The New York Public Library
Lesson Plan Search – Google in Education
The Food Timeline: popular American decade foods, menus, products & party planning tips
The History Place
History.com — History Made Every Day — American & World History
Resources for the Classroom (Education at the Getty)
NASA's Space Place :: Home :: NASA's The Space Place
Google in education
TeacherTube - Teach the World | Teacher Videos | Lesson Plan Videos | Student Video Lessons | Online Teacher Made Videos | TeacherTube.com
National Jukebox LOC.gov
historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.
Resources for School Librarians
USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
Digital Public Library of America | Berkman Center
Education Outreach: Tennessee State Library and Archives
A program at the Tennessee State Library and Archives focused specifically on linking educators with primary sources for educational use in classrooms. Students can also easily access the digitized primary sources on our website.
America: A Narrative History, 8e: W. W. Norton StudySpace
US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources.
Internet Archive: Free Movies, Music, Books & Wayback Machine
Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.
Smithsonian Education - Educators
Smithsonian lesson plans emphasis inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections.
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II
National Archives Experience
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California
Welcome to the Digital Library of Georgia
The New York State Digital Collections
The Digital Collections provide a gateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Through the collection, you can access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
provides presentations on various topics using primary sources and can be browsed by era, grade level or resource type. IT also provides lesson plans and other materials for teachers.
How to View (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Library of Congress Primary Sources by State; Tennessee - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Crossroads Home