Websites providing tons of primary sources for the Individuals & Societies (social studies) essays:
- National Archives Educator Resources has lots of links to primary source documents and tools for knowing how to use them effectively.
- DocsTeach is a subpage of the National Archives and works like a search engine within the archives pages.
- Library of Congress' Primary Source Resources Page and how to use them.
- Library of Congress' American Memory Collections.
- Digital Public Library of America is an online library with a wealth of information including books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access.
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania's History Online Pages - "History Online is an exciting way to learn about and research history without even leaving your home or classroom. This section presents information with a variety of methods – from annotated transcriptions to videos and audio casts to interactive websites."
- American Social History Project produces print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the richly diverse social and cultural history of the United States.
- American History from Revolution to Reconstruction and Beyond. n November 1994 a group of students from the Arts Faculty of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands under the supervision of their professor created a World Wide Web-site dedicated to the pre-World War I history of the United States of America.
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is the nation’s leading American history organization dedicated to K–12 education. The Institute’s mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources. This link gets you to the primary sources page.
- Library of Economics & Liberty - EconLog is edited by Arnold Kling and housed by Econlib, The Library of Economics and Liberty. His blog discusses news and "insights" in economics, a searchable archive of posts, provides help and tips in using the Econlib, a searchable archive of EconLog's predecessor site, and current economics-related articles and complete online works and reprinted essays available through Econlib.