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shmoop claims to "speak student."  I think this is a great site for kids who are trying to understand their topic of choice.  There are some primary source links embedded within the text of each subject.  The high interest topics of study makes this site usable for students doing research.

This is one part of the site, "History Matters," and it is all about helping students and teachers understand and make use of primary sources. There are all kinds of activities to help learn how to read and analyze letters, photographs, songs, cartoons, etc. On other parts of the site, you can find primary sources documenting American past.

PBS Teachers is a portal that provides preK-12 educational resources that include thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations that correlate to state and national educational. The site allows its user an advanced search option to fine tune their search for specific lessons by grade level, subject, and resource request (i.e.) lesson plans, video, interactive, slideshow. For educators, the site also provides a unique opportunity to subscribe and join different educator discussion forums as well as theme based theme-based widgets containing links to high-quality activity packs, resources, and activities for multiple grade levels.

This site would be great for teaching middle to high school age students about primary sources. The homepage gives a great definition of what primary sources can be. The site has primary source for the Cold War, WWII, the Iraq War (2003), the Civil War, presidential papers, and Native Americans.

The Library of Congress website is an outstanding resource for anyone looking for any kind of imformation. Its outstanding in giving you numerous engines to use without having to leave the comfort of your home or classroom. It's important for all educators to be aware of the amount of useful primary sources and information that can befound throughout the website.

Not only is this website important to current librarians, but it is also a great resource for future librarians. Anything and everything you might want to know about how a library works to where there are job openings.

As an Nebraskan its important to use the information given by the state historical society. It is a direct resource for all things Nebraska.

National History Day offers primary sources for world history. Students and educators from 5-12 grade can use this site to find information on many regions around the world. Teachers can use the Classroom Connection section to find information that fits into their standards, a repository can be used to find primary resources for specific regions and time periods.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence offers primary resources in a variety of subjects. These resources are not limited to history. There are resources for arts, heath, language arts, math, and science.

National Archives website with a lot of great resources.  Lesson plans & activities to help planning lessons around primary sources, school tours and activities, links with help to use primary sources.  There are also featured activities and resources.  Not to mention professional development opportunities!

Archives.gov offers a section designed just for educators. There are lesson plans and reproducible sources that can be used to teach American History. Teachers can find lessons based on specific historical time periods. Educators can also find professional development opportunities. There is a section for state and regional primary resources, but I noticed that Nebraska is not on the list.

The National Archives provides many primary documents.  Looking at the site, I also found the teacher resource section really helpful.  Some of the things that can be found there are how to find primary resources and how to use them. For teachers and librarian that are new to using this resource, or new a refresher, I think it will really benefit them.

U.S. History Primary Sources for National History Day

Choose the topic about 9/11 you want to search for, grade level and subject to find information and primary sources about the September 11 attacks. 

Civil War Primary Documents, Personal Diaries, Journals, Letters, Cartoons, Art, Images, Poetry, Literature, & Music.  

Sets of primary sources about many different topics

Older students would greatly benefit from this lesson plan for learning about primary sources.  Everything is laid out perfectly with links included to help illustrate the subject of primary sources.  Assessment is included with a rubric.