Primary+Sources

What are Primary Sources? Primary sources are sources that come from the person who was involved in an event. These can take on the form of documents that were created as the event took place or they can be created afterwards as a memoir or an oral history.

Primary sources may include:
 * letters
 * manuscripts
 * diaries
 * newspapers
 * journals
 * speeches
 * interviews
 * memoirs
 * photographs
 * audio recordings
 * video recordings
 * research data
 * artifacts

=General Information Sites=

[|http://www.digitalvaults.org/] //The National Archives// An email account is required to save content, but content can be viewed and printed without logging in.

[] Hosted by the University of California, this site can browsed by theme or with an A to Z index.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html //American Memory from The Library of Congress// American Memory provides free and open access to maps, photos, audio and video. There is a wealth of information on this site. Choose from links to Exhibitions, Thomas Jefferson, Veterans History and a Global Gateway.

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/period.htm Teaching with Historic Places This site is brought to you by the National Registrar of Historic Places. You can view the location by topic, location, skill, U.S History standard and Social Studies Standards.

[] History Matters is for high school and college students.

=The American Revolution=

http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/ //Spy Letters of the American Revolution// This site was created for the University of Michigan for its library. It was created in 1999. The site includes letters, stories and people of the American Revolution.

http://ushistory.org/ //US History// This site is sponsored by the Independence Hall Association in Philidelphia. Find links to information about The Declaration of Independence, Ben Frankilin and more. Information on the use of these sources is listed on their copyright page.

=The Civil War=

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html The Civil War A comprehensive list of links created and maintained by George Hoemann.

=World War I= [] Created by WWI volunteers, this site covers the war from all perspectives.

=World War II=

http://chgs.umn.edu/educational/ //The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies// Housed at the University of Minnesota, this site was created as a resource for information and the teaching of these topics to middle and high school students.

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ National Geographic Remembering Pearl harbor Read accounts of the day in the memory book.

[] This site includes lesson plans to use with primary sources.