A new online tool called http://docsteach.org/ recently was launched by the National Archives and provides a resource for teachers to search more than 3,000 primary-source documents. The site also includes seven tools for teachers, including one that customizes history activities to individual classroom needs.
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http://images.google.com/hosted/life Check out this awesome source of historical images. “Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.”
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http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Newly organized and more user friendly, this extraordinary collection from the Library of Congress ”brings the power of Primary Sources into the Classroom”
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http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm Here’s a wide and well researched collection of US History primary source material and other digital images from the New York Public Library. Take a look at the Charting America or the Lewis Wickes Hine collections, for example…
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/teachers/index.html Start here to search or browse through 10 American Experience Web sites — including timelines, primary sources, teacher’s guides, maps, galleries, interactives, video, and more — to find history, civics, and other social studies resources for your classroom.
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Attention US History teachers! The Library of Congress’ American Memory Collection has made it’s amazing collection of primary sources much easier to search and use. There’s a new Teacher Resources module “which brings together collections of digital resources and provides not only Web links to those specifi materials, but also detailed lesson plans, step-by-step procedures [...]
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