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This is a collection of the 100 most influential documents according to the U.S. government. It would be interesting to have students read these throughout the year, and rank them on their own list of most influential. It also helps students understand how great of an impact a document can have on a country's history.

A site that would be great for any American History class. It has digital copies of the 100 most important documents in US History. I think that it would be used with high school students in an American History or Government class. Students are able to click on the list of documents they'd like to see and an image of the actual document appears. It can be enlarged so it's a little easier to see. Due to their age, some of these documents are difficult to read, but there an option for students to read the document transcript.

This is a list of the top 100 primary source documents as chossen by this website. One of the great features of this is it is easily manageable. It has documents from 1776 to 1965. The links take you to both a printer friendly version of the document and a digital image of the primary document. You can see George Washington and President Kennedy's handwriting also.