Making of America
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
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.
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and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.
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
East Tennessee Historical Society | Teacher Resources
Lesson plans, summer seminars and workshops created by teachers in Tennessee
Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
NYPL, Digital Collections, Image
Research Sources
Research Sources
Teaching With Documents
Primary Source Worksheets
Teacher Lesson Plan - History Firsthand: Primary Source Research in Elementary School
GeoSource: K-5 Earth Science Education
Primary Sources for History Links
Primary Sources on the Web-The Library-University of California, Berkeley
Primary Source | Resources | Online_Curriculum | United States
ALA | Using Primary Sources on the Web
Document Analysis Worksheets