Primary Sources
Online Lessons
Alabama Department of Archives and History
    Lesson plans and more
Berkeley:  What is a Primary Source/
Connecticut History Online:  How to Use a Primary Source .
History First Hand:  Primary Source Research in the Elementary School  from the Library of Congress Learning Page
Incorporating Primary Sources in the Classroom   This is from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
Library Of Congress Learning Page: Lesson Framework .
Medieval History Sourcebook:  Why study History through Primary Sources? .
Smithsonian: You be the Historian  Grades 4-8
Teaching Historical Research: Primary Source Documents .
Using Primary Sources on the Web from the University of Washington Libraries
What was Columbus Thinking  K-3
You are the Historian:  Investigating the First Thanksgiving. Elementary site from Plimoth Plantation

Where to find PS
American Civil War Home page .
Amherst College Library: Where to find Primary Sources .
Archiving Early America
    Maps, letters, portraits and more.
Historical Voices.org
    Sound and text from the Historical Voices Project and the University of Michigan
History and Politics Out Loud
History Link  K-adult  This is for Washington state, primarily the King County area.
Holocaust Documents and people
Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains. Montana State U
Irish History Using Primary Sources
Mayflower Webpage
National Archives: Powers of Persuasion WWII
Primary Source Documents:  a List
Primary Sources of the Nuclear Age
Spy Letters of the American Revolution
When Nixon Met Elvis and more from the National Archives
WWI Document Archive .

How To Create A School Archive
Archivist Tool Kit . From British Columbia
Finding, Using and Creating Primary Sources
Montana Heritage Project
National Archives: Digital classroom -- Building an Archives
 

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