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MilestoneDocuments.com combines famous primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers, MilestoneDocuments.com explores the speeches, laws and legal opinions, proclamations and executive orders, and other documents that influenced the course of history. At present the site only covers documents from American history, but we will be adding coverage of primary documents from world history later in 2009. Also coming soon is a greatly expanded set of resources for teaching with documents. For now, see our free monthly e-newsletter for U.S. history teachers.

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

"A.nnotate lets you share and store notes on documents. When you upload a document A.nnotate displays it in the browser and lets you add notes and tags to specific words, phrases and regions of the page. You can share documents so that other people can add notes and replies. All notes are added to your personal document index. "

Homefront America in WW II A Document Based Question by Peter Pappas This lesson improves content reading comprehension with an engaging array of source documents - including journals, maps, photos, posters, cartoons, historic data and artifacts. It is framed around essential questions that link the past and present and invite students to reflect on parallel developments in contemporary America.

Each film in the 'Famous Moments' series highlights a true story of historical significance, providing 'students' of early America with a better understanding of the people, places and events of this important era. Of added interest for viewers, each film tells its story using scenes and portraits from the Early American Digital Library. Many of the images are primary source documents - engravings, woodcuts and drawings that date back to the early to mid-1800s.

Each film in the 'Famous Moments' series highlights a true story of historical significance, providing 'students' of early America with a better understanding of the people, places and events of this important era. Of added interest for viewers, each film tells its story using scenes and portraits from the Early American Digital Library. Many of the images are primary source documents - engravings, woodcuts and drawings that date back to the early to mid-1800s.

"Using DocsTeach, educators can create interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials from the National Archives"

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave -- PDF Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called "waves," which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space.

7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave

A large number of history websites.

A thorough collection of Greek and Latin authors with some helpful biographical information on them as well. Has some quite obscure texts.

Categorized lists of major concepts by discipline for K-6 SS.