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Thanks so much to everyone who shared some great books, websites, info., courses, 
workshops, etc.  I've included this very helpful information below:

 

1.  We use the primary sources search on EbscoHost quite a bit.
 
 
2.  For digital there probably is nothing more comprehensive than the American 
Memory Collection and the Library of Congress Teachers Page.  
 
 3.  I teach an online graduate course in using these resources; participants are 
usually amazed at how much is available and learning from each other.  I've had 
many students from Pennsylvania in the course.        Perhaps some of your teachers 
(or you) might like to join one of the classes!    The summer course starts the end 
of June; another course starts in September.   The link to course information is 
here: 
 
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/primarysources.shtml
 
There are some articles about primary sources (The Power of Primary Sources) on my 
personal web page linked in my signature.  They were published recently in 
Multimedia & Internet@ Schools.
 
 
 
4.  We do a lot (a LOT) of primary source research. Resources on the web are too 
numerous to count, but here's a link to my primary sources page which is a start, 
at least - it's by no means everything we use however:

http://www.menloschool.org/intranet/library_academic_subjects.aspx?ResourceCategoryID=255

5.  I think the places we use the most are American Memory (Library of Congress - 
hard to search but a real treasure trove), EuroDocs, Yales Avalon Project, and the 
Internet History Sourcebooks from Fordham University. I subscribe to Britannica's 
Annals of American History (plus a bunch of other stuff).

FYI, if you really are interested in incorporating primary sources into your US 
History classes, the Library of Congress offers a fabulous primary source class 
during the summer. I took it three years ago and want to go back - you get to visit 
the not-public areas of the library and see tons of cool stuff (the original 
telegram announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor - "this is not a drill" - ; Abraham 
Lincoln's diaries, George Washington's hand-drawn map of his property. A wonderful 
four days in DC, plus the evenings to spend enjoying the Mall. I can't recommend it 
enough!
 
 
 
6.  Our kids do use American Decades extensively. I also like Annals of America and 
we have several of the primary source packets from Jackdaws 
<http://www.jackdaw.com/>. Gale has a series under its UXL line which include a 
primary source volume for many different historical topics.
Library of Congress has the American Memory project 
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html> which is a rich source of primary material.
The state of Pennsylvania may have, and lots of universities do have oral history 
projects and other digitized primary source materials as well.
Depending on the topic there are many print resources which cover the documentary 
history of the topic.
I'd do a subject search on "sources" in my local public library to find out what 
they have.
 
 
 
7.  Library of Congress(loc.gov) is digitizing its holdings and putting them on 
line.There is a teacher corner,also, with lesson plans for some items. 
bbrown@altonschools.org
 
 
 
American Memory is a great site that provides samples of Primary Sources from the 
past in the United States. 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html And it is FREE!
 
 
8.  We use the decades series. Annals of America is also good. If you buy history 
resource center from gale, they have a number of primary resources. Salem Press 
also has a documents series.
 
 
 
9.  I have used "Facts on File" for a number of years.  It has both primary and 
secondary sources.  
Another vendor to check is "ABC-Clio."  Depends how much money you have to spend, 
but I do recommend them.
Any sales rep should offer a free trial.
 
 
 
10.  We have struggled with the same problem and use the American Decades 
extensively!
 
 
11.  I recently started playing around with Live Binder as a free library web site. 
Here is the link to my live binder: http://livebinders.com/edit?id=13207
 
The top tab labeled "Research Tools" and then the subtab "Primary & Secondary 
sources" defines the two and provides several links. I just put this up a month ago 
- got it from the last school where I taught in Missouri - and haven't had a chance 
to go through it myself yet. Regardless, my thinking is that it might be useful to 
you.
 
 
12.  
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm
 
 
 
 
13.  Greetings from the Southern Tier of New York. I have three
series that I can recommend:
 
1. History FirstHand by Greenhaven Press (12 vol.)
2. America's Wars Through Primary Sources by Enslow Publishers (8 vol.)
3. Pages From History by Oxford University Press (7 vol.)
 
 
Victoria Abens
Librarian
Academy of Notre Dame
Villanova, PA  19348
vabens@ndapa.org
 
 
 
 
                                          
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