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Documents on African and African-American history, focused on the history of slavery

What is this collection? Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers labeled with each soldier's name, rank, and unit, with links to revealing documents about each soldier. Collections include records for soldiers from over 50 territories and states.  Has a free 7 day trial.

The Smithsonian Institution houses an extraordinary array of Civil War artifacts in nearly a dozen of its museums and archives.

A diverse collection of resources on the history of South Asia (mainly the Indian subcontinent).

Create, Express, Learn with PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

Create, Express, Learn with PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS - I'd like to share 5 sites that go one step further than Creative Commons materials. These sites host primary source materials and encourage young people to use them to produce and publish their own creations. Some even include online tools to help students with the process.

"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.

A comprehensive site about using primary sources on the web. There are also a range of great links.

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

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.

I'd already saved this but it's such a good source for primary images that I've updated the tags and re-saved it. Flickr contains a surprisingly vast collection of historically relevant images and I'd recommend it for classroom resource design or student research. I guess, like with all user-generated content, there will be issues with the legitimacy and authenticity of some of the images however there are still many reliable photosets I've found which would be useful for a history teacher.

This is a collection of publicly held photographic archives, all put together on Flickr.

CongressLink is a resource for teachers that provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. The site also hosts lesson plans and reference and historical materials related to congressional topics. This site is maintained by The Dirksen Congressional Center.

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

This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project started in 2002 with a simple idea for a vast undertaking: to digitize all federal records that exist from the administration of Abraham Lincoln.  Over 6,000 documents are currently online and over half a million documents are scanned and in the process of being placed online.  People from around the world now have access to the documents of  Abraham Lincoln's administration, including Civil War records. 

Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 will present this collection of more than 55,000 documents in a free, online format with extensive and searchable metadata linked to digitized images of each document, thereby insuring free access for a wide range of users. 

Pieces of History have put together a top 10 list of some of our favorite haunts in the digital world of the National Archives.

Madison's Notes from the Constitutional Convention. 

Bibliographies of Civil War letters and diaries yet published. It lists over 1,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform.