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Another excellent community of history teachers. Has thousands of members.

This French National Library digital collection has access to texts in many languages and seems to have thousands of primary source documents and images. Happy hunting!

This is the English section of the Louvre Museum. No doubt it will have heaps of images of the artworks and artefacts they pinched from everywhere.

"Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World"

Martin Luther lesson plan

Has thousands of free ebooks. Most of them are pretty old translations (given that these are the ones out of copyright) but there were some surprisingly new ones. Good for research.

podcast

Are you a Dan fan too, Sue? Sorry to keep harping on this everyone, but I've found iTunes an excellent central place to get podcasts from. On the most recent version iTunesU is even better; there are thousands of university lectures and seminars there freely available. I put them up on moodle for the kids to use for research, homework, etc or the students just get them straight from iTunes. Definitely worth a look.

he Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Each year the Institute offers support and resources to tens of thousands of teachers, and through them enhances the education of more than a million students.