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The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers classroom resources and professional development to assist teachers in their classrooms. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities and documents and exercises for classroom use drawing from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes. Common Core units for English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers Online Exhibitions on important topics including the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement and Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars up to the Second Gulf War Historians' Podcasts including small video clips on essential questions History by Era, an online resource organized chronologically with essays by leading historians, a timeline, primary source documents for classroom use, multimedia, lesson plans, activities, and more Primary Sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries The Affiliate School Program is a unique gateway to education resources, events, and tools designed to bring American history to life in the classroom. Our network of schools connects teachers and students to valuable resources, including: Exclusive web content, including teachable documents, resource lists, and more Professional development opportunities, including preferential consideration to Teacher Seminars Free and discounted books, multimedia kits, and traveling exhibitions Unlimited access to the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 60,000 American historical documents Opportunities for students to participate in the Civil War Essay Contest and the Dear George Washington Contest Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program provides free resources and support for teaching and studying American history

New resource page on Infotopia on the John F. Kennedy Assassination, as the 50th Anniversary of his death is November 22, 2013. http://www.infotopia.info/kennedy_assassination.html You'll find links to local and national radio, print, and television news reports as well as links to the original Dallas police investigation files. You will also find a direct link to the Zapruder film as well as the lesser known Orville Nix film of the assassination.

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, histor

A great resource with lesson plans focused on reading and analyzing primary documents. Includes lessons for US History and World History.

Bloomsburg University's LibGuide on Government Documents; some resources are not available off-campus. but many are available online

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's

Welcome to ConSource, the free online library of the Founders' constitutional documents!

"In this lesson students will learn about the impact of photography in the Civil Rights Movement by analyzing James Karales's photograph of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, reading about this march, and imagining themselves as a marcher in Karales's photograph. As an assessment, students will create postcards, incorporating their own visual images and descriptive writing about the March."