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DocsTeach Topic Packs

Global Issues

Inquiry kits from Thinkport

Topics from the Smithsonian Innovation Center

• Library of Congress general search--use the search box at the top to put in your topic and keywords

• Digital Public Library of America: Sets of primary sources by topic. Include US Domestic Affairs, US Foreign Policy and Debate and Diplomacy Abroad.

• Docs Teach: sets of primary sources by broad topic

• National Archives: tons of documents on all aspects of US History

• World Digital Library (Library of Congress)--search by topic and time period

• Yale Avalon Project--thousands of documents organized by time period

• LIFE Magazine Photo Archive--search photos by keyword and date

• Chronicling America: Library of Congress--use the filters at the top of the screen to narrow down time period and topic.

• Thinkport US History Collections OR US Government Collections - select a time period to find primary and secondary sources.

• Enoch Pratt Library--get a digital library card to access historical newspapers.

• World Digital Library (Library of Congress)--search by topic and time period 

• Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham University)--search by topic or browse topics on the left

• Document Set: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French Revolution)

• Document Set: Treaty of Paris

• United Nations

• European Reading Room (Library of Congress) browse huge collection of digitized primary sources

• Western Europe Security and Cooperation 1948 - 

• Yale Avalon Project--thousands of documents organized by time period

• Thinkport World History Collections--organized by time period with multiple topics in each era.

• Document Set: Latin American Revolutionaries

• Document Set: Panama Canal

• Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress) browse digitized primary sources

• Inter-American treaties and documents - documents between North, Central, and/or South American nations

• Latin American and Caribbean Digital Primary Resources

• Early Americas Digital Archive

• Yale Avalon Project--thousands of documents organized by time period

• Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham University)--search by topic or browse topics on the left

• Thinkport World History Collections--organized by time period with multiple topics in each era.

• Internet African History Sourcebook - search for all topics in all countries and kingdoms

• Africa: Primary Sources from U of Washington

• Primary Sources: African Studies and African History

• African and Middle Eastern Reading Room - primary sources from the Library of Congress

• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook

• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook

• Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Documents

• African Civilizations: Primary and Secondary Sources

• Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham University)--search by topic or browse topics on the left

• Thinkport World History Collections--organized by time period with multiple topics in each era.

• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook - search for all topics in all countries

• Asian Reading Room (Library of Congress)

• Internet Indian History Sourcebook

• Indochina: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

• Asia Primary Sources from U of Washington - use the links on the left to narrow down to East Asia, South Asia, or Southeast Asia

• Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham University)--search by topic or browse topics on the left

• Thinkport World History Collections--organized by time period with multiple topics in each era.

Click the links below to see the differences between primary and secondary sources.

Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary vs Secondary

Search for books in Destiny, our library catalog.