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Hands down, the favorite is and American Memory Collection compiled by the Library of Congress <http://memory.loc.gov/> I am attaching list I compiled right after posting my request yesterday and to which I added hits from LM_NET. I hope you find it as helpful as the kids did today! <<...OLE_Obj...>> New Canaan High School Library Media Center 11 Farm Rd. New Canaan, CT 06840 (203) 972 4444 x4 Understanding the role of primary source materials in research <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html> WORLD HISTORY GENERAL HISTORICAL PRIMARY SOURCES: History through the eyes of those who lived it <http://www.ibiscom.com/eyindx.htm> Multimedia world history <http://www.historywiz.com/index.html> Key events in the twentieth century <http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/mainmenu/mainfla.htm> Documents for teaching and learning about world history <http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/003.html> from a working-class and non-euro centric perspective. <http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/> World history reference sources <http://www.kidinfo.com/World_History/World_History.html> Links to primary source sites <http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/Primary.html> Where history lives on the web <http://history.about.com/> National Archives and Records Administration <http://www.nara.gov/exhall/> Hanover Historical Texts Project <http://history.hanover.edu/project.html> Huge list of primary source materials covering a wide range of topics in history <http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/curriculum/primarysources.html> Portal to the world. Links to electronic resources selected by the Library of Congress <http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html> Short list of links to the cream of the crop in primary source materials <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html> An Internet hotlist on primary sources generated by the Dupont (California) Library <http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listprimarymr6.html> UNITED STATES HISTORY GENERAL HISTORICAL PRIMARY SOURCES: Historical collections for the national digital library <http://memory.loc.gov/> Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents <http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/> Core Documents of U.S. Democracy <http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html> Early congressional documents <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html> U.S. Historical Documents Archive <http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/ushda.htm> U.S. congressional debates 1774-1873 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html> Selected historic decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court <http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/usa.html> Vast list of links. Some are great, some are not. This site includes many primary source links <http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/usa.html> Hard to describe but useful. Includes letters and documents. <http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/> Documents for the study of American history (15th century through the present) <http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html> Very well annotated list of primary source websites <http://www.ala.org/acrl/resnov01.html> Hanover Historical Texts Project <http://history.hanover.edu/project.html> American History & Government Hot list <http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/government.html> American History : A Documentary Record 1492 - 1988 <http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm> Huge list of primary source materials covering a wide range of topics in history <http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/curriculum/primarysources.html> Short list of links to the cream of the crop in primary source materials <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySourcesOnTheWeb.html> An Internet hotlist on primary sources generated by the Dupont (California) Library <http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listprimarymr6.html> PRIMARY SOURCES BY SUBJECT: WORLD WAR II <http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2833/general/eyewitness/eyewitness.html> LABOR HISTORY 1948-1975 <http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/exhibits/tam/reiss/opener.html > PRIMARY SOURCES BY TYPE: POSTERS Posters from the WPA <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html> Posters <http://www.boondocksnet.com/cb/posters.html> Posters of the Spanish Civil War <http://www.art-for-a-change.com/NoPasaran/spain.html> Poem of democracy (poster) <http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1845_1948/PD--10039804/SZ--2/posters. htm> CARTOONS Great turn of the century (20th) resources including political cartoons, about U.S. foreign policy, TR (the president), and Mark Twain. <http://www.boondocksnet.com/search.html> <http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html> American Revolution and Civil War cartoons <http://www.philaprintshop.com/cartoon.html> Cartoons of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era <http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm> Political cartoons by Dr. Seuss (yes, the guy who wrote The Cat in The Hat) <http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm> IMAGES U.S. Historical Documents Archive <http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/ushda.htm> Image 1846 U.S. Capitol Building <http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/NV--1_1845_1948/PD--10039804/SZ--2/posters. htm> U.S. labor and industrial history World Wide Web audio archive <http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/> African-American and the U.S. Navy <http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/prs-tpic/af-amer/afam-usn.htm> New York Times Magazine timeline of women's history in the United States <http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m2/wolf-timeline.html> STATISTICS United States historical census browser <http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/> Census bureau home page <http://www.census.gov/> Selected Historical Census Data <http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html> Federal Reserve Board releases and historical data <http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/> Federal statistics organized by topic <http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/A2Z.cgi> LETTERS Civil War homepage includes letters, diaries and documents <http://www.civil-war.net/> Letters written by soldiers documenting their experiences during wars throughout American history <http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History /Documents/> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. 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