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This is a thorough and well-organised collection of sources related to legal history. Quite useful for any political, legal or even just general historical research.

Excellent site for Primary Source Docs!!

Many primary sources for students to analyze.

Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."

"The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history." That's what they reckon.

The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history.

Researching on the Internet means working from home, viewing collections from around the world and stumbling across rare finds from somewhat obscure libraries or museums. But it also means linking to garbage, weird conspiracy theories, and even plagiarized material. To connect you to the best historical references, we've generated this list of 100 terrific sites that feature primary source documents, recordings, images and more.

This Issue's Theme: Making Primary Sources More Accessible to All Students This issue explores how teachers can use instructional strategies and other supports to facilitate the primary source-based learning of students with disabilities.

A useful quarterly guide to using primary sources in the classroom with children of all ages.

Has primary source sets on the histories of different cultures.

Useful in helping students understand what primary and secondary sources are and how to approach them.

A very good guide for students on how to do digital primary source research.

This isn't strictly speaking a site with resources usable for historical teaching and research, however it has a great breakdown of why historians use primary sources and how we use them etc and this might be useful with your classes.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers several primary source collections for the study of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War period. The FOIA Electronic Reading Room web site was established by the CIA "to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents." Direct web access to the following collections is now possible: # The Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals is a PDF collection of "sensitive Soviet and Warsaw Pact military journals from 1961 to 1984 providing a view into Warsaw Pact military strategy". # Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is "a captivating collection of over 75 documents concerning the planning and implementation martial law in Poland from mid-1980 to late 1981. The collection release coincided with a CIA symposium honouring Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a member of the Polish Army General Staff and the source of the documents."

Seems to focus especially on the Cold War. Definitely one for the conspirary theorists.

Extensive collection of history related resources and the stories behind them.

A collection of resources on teaching with primary sources.  Since it's from Learn NC, a lot of resources are specific to the American South.  However, the general guidelines and suggestions might be useful for anyone.

An excellent newsletter to sign up for. They're not just try to make money and they are historians and know what they're talking about. If you're on twitter then #historyteacher is the place to be!

"A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness."

Lots of primary sources! Organised around regions.

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.

Primary sources on the concentration camps before the outbreak of war.

Primary sources focussing on the Nazi concentration camps prior to the outbreak of war.

Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.

Site has primary sources, newspaper archives, reference libraries and narrated tours of historic sites.

Primary source based lessons for World History

A site with primary sources that also guides students in source analysis/evaluation. It's run by George Mason University (they do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to open-access digital history. Good on 'em!).