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"Turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators."

"History of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents"

Great resource for primary sources-free accounts fog teachers assigning it as required reading. Not sure if this includes high school or not.

"Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions An Internet Hotlist on Document Based Questions"

very nice collection of primary sources from the history of the Soviet Union: texts, images, films, audio.

Mapping History "Link primary sources to locations on a map to practice spatial thinking and understand the impact of geographic factors in history."

"Enjoy these stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them."

Free access to many of the primary resources, however site membership to have access to everything on the site is paid.

In 1832 Michael Sadler secured a parliamentary investigation of conditions in the textile factories and he sat as chairman on the committee. The evidence printed here is taken from the large body published in the committee's report and is representative rather than exceptional. It will be observed that the questions are frequently leading; this reflects Sadler's knowledge of the sort of information that the committee were to hear and his purpose of bringing it out. This report stands out as one of three great reports on the life of the industrial class - the two others being that of the Ashley Commission on the mines and 's report on sanitary problems. The immediate effect of the investigation and the report was the passage of the Act of 1833 limiting hours of employment for women and children in textile work.

Fantastic outline maps of everything you might want: voyages, before & after, geographic regions, countries

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.

The World Wonders Project is a valuable resource for students and scholars who can now virtually discover some of the most famous sites on earth. The project offers an innovative way to teach history and geography to students of primary and secondary schools all over the world. Feel free to download these educational packages for your classroom use.

"Propaganda was central to Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material. For further information on the site, see the FAQ. New items are described in the GPA Blog. "

global development interactive info graphicic the Millenium gooadls gdp vs hunger, gdp vs primary ed, gdp vs infant mortality

this live binder is full of links to various archives most of which we have in diigo as well, but with an American History focus.

slavery letters

Old Maps- find old maps of nearly every area for the last 1000 years. Great tool for inquiry based learning.