Tools
Library of Congress Teachers Page
Library of Congress Analysis Tools
Library of Congress Lesson Plans A-Z
Library of Congress Found Poetry Lesson
Library of Congress Poetry illustrator
Library of Congress of YouTube
Hidden Treasures of the Library of Congress
Searching the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Collections
Searching the Library of Congress Newspaper Collections
Written Document Analysis Worksheet (National Archives)
To The Source! Teaching History Primary Source Concept Quiz
Primary Sources: Become a Good Researcher (From Alabama Archives)
a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools
create your own interactive learning activity with documents from the National Archives
A Selection of my Favorite Primary Source Sites:
From the Library of Congress
Born in Slavery: Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
Small-town America: Stereoscopic Views
(Marian Anderson, Jazz, Stephen Foster, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Caruso)
Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers (topics by subject)
Lizzie Borden (One of the "Crimes of the Century" Collection)
Research Guide: American Women
Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in World War II
Fifty Years of Coca Cola Advertisements
Other Resources
Euscreen: Discover Europe's Television Heritage
New York Times Interactive: The Subway in Pictures
Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives
The National Archives on HistoryPin
National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults
Harrowing Lives of Child Miners, as documented by Lewis Hine
Honolulu After Pearl Harbor, An Account Published after 71 Years
Teaching a People's History: The Zinn Education Project
Smithsonian Blog: Past Imperfect
Making of America: Digitized Books from the University of Michigan