If your students are using the Internet for research, provide them with access to primary source documents for accurate information!

Online Sources for Primary Documents Lessons

Library of Congress: What are primary sources?

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html

LOC: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html

LOC: Questions for Analyzing Primary Sources

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/studqsts.html

LOC: Lesson by themes, topics, disciplines, or eras

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/theme.html

Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History
http://www.smithsoniansource.org/

Wartime Posters (WWII)

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/wartimeposters/

National Archives and Records Administration: Teachers & Students

http://www.archives.gov/education/

NARA: Teaching with Documents

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

Smithsonian Education: Letters from the Japanese American Internment

http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/index.html

EDSITEment: Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364

--: Voices of the American Revolution

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=423

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home
http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm

George Washington University: National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

American Rhetoric

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

History and Politics Out Loud

http://www.hpol.org/

Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html

Learn Out Loud

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video

LOC: Wise Guide
http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/archives.html

British Library: Online Gallery
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

Log into Middle Search Plus (user: bedford password: bears ), access the Student Research Center, select only “Primary Source Documents,” type search term

LOC: It’s No Laughing Matter: What Makes Political Cartoons so Persuasive?

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/political_cartoon/index.html

Using Political Cartoons in the Classroom

http://bms.westport.k12.ct.us/lmc/PolCartoons.htm

Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm

Comics.com: Editorial Cartoons
http://comics.com/editoons/

Academy of American Poets: Listening Booth

http://poets.org/audio.php

(example: Robert Frost reading the "Road Not Taken")

Radio Memories
(radio broadcasts from the golden age of radio)
http://radiomemories.libsyn.com

American Museum of the Moving Image: The Living Room Candidate
(Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004)

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php

Internet Archive: Movie Archive
(includes classic cartoons, newsreels, features films in open domain)
http://www.archive.org/details/movies

---: Cinemocracy
(WWII Propaganda films)

http://www.archive.org/details/cinemocracy

---:Universal Newsreels

http://www.archive.org/details/universal_newsreels

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

Wired Magazine: "The Blogs of War"

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/milblogs.html

PBS News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/

History Channel Video Clip & Speech Archive
(uses Real One Player - may not work at school)
http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/

Annenberg Teacher Resources
(must join to access Video on Demand; membership is free)

http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=0&grade=0&imageField2.x=14&imageField2.y=15

---Primary Sources: Workshops in American History

http://www.learner.org/resources/series135.html

--- Primary Sources: Workshops in American History

http://www.learner.org/resources/series135.html#

NASA Multimedia Gallery

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html

American Memory: Motion Pictures

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/collections:@field(FLD003+@band(origf+Motion+Picture)):heading=Original+Format:+Motion+Pictures

---Spanish-American War in Pictures

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html

---Origins of American Animation

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

Connecticut History Online
http://www.cthistoryonline.org/

Connecticut Historical Society
http://www.chs.org/

Other Articles & Sources:
(Sites recommended by Classroom Connect)

Read UC Berkeley's ideas on evaluating Web sources. In this activity, students design personal "archival boxes" with pictures, poems, essays, maps, timelines, and stories about their families.

Finding Primary Sources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html

The New Jersey Historical Society offers four sample lessons online that illustrate wise instructional use of primary source documents.

From the Ohio Historical Society, this site contains a general lesson plan that can serve as a starting point for original class activities.