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"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs." Sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."

"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world." From a map of the world, click on a country and then choose from place, time period, topic, or type of item (maps).

The premier site for primary sources. Click on the "Classroom Materials" link for Lesson Plans, Themed Resources, Primary Source Sets, Presentations & Activities, and Collection Connections

"The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color...The site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia."

Reliable, annotated websites organized under Resources by Subject, Newspapers & Magazines, Special Collections, For Kids, and For Teens

"Primary sources, high-quality online teaching modules, and instruction on critical thinking skills."

"An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955."