Digital Public Library of America
DPLA works with a national network of partners to make millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
Educator Resources | National Archives
all National Archives resources for K-12 teachers in one place. Includes Civics for All of Use, DocsTeach, Distance Learning, Milestone Documents and more
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.
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
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.
For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress resources for Teachers - includes lesson plans, information about teaching with primary sources and other ways to use the Library of Congress in the classroom.