This site is a large collection of primary documents related to the Cold War. There are presidential letters, decrees, memorandums, and meeting notes. There are also documents pertaining to Hiroshima. This site would be great for a high school history or government class to use when studying the Cold War.
This is an amazing site that is current. It is called the National Security Archive. It has recent documents from the Iraq War, the Torture Archive and September 11th. This site would be excellent for many classrooms. A current events teacher might use it, as well as history, language arts, or government.
This site is a large collection of documents relating to the Presidency. There are documents such as election debates, party platforms, Inaugural Addresses, and press conferences. This would be a great site for a history teacher or for a language arts teacher who might be teaching how speeches are constructed or given.
This site contains actual documents from the trials in Salem Village in 1692. I searched for this site because I once taught The Crucible and think that students would enjoy seeing the court documents that they read about in the story.
This is an amazing site with hundreds of annotated American political documents. There are items written by Christopher Columbus, Cotton Mather, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and William Bradford. This site would be very useful to a classroom teacher to show the actual documents that are discussed in a textbook.
This is the world's largest collection of Native American writings. It houses all types or writings that document Indian Life from the "Indian perspective." It has a collection of literary writings from Native America writers. This site could be very useful in either a history or language arts class.
This site I found interesting because it contains of wealth of first-hand information such as speeches, testimonies, cases, and briefs on all sorts of topics. Some of the topics I found were H1N1 and the 9/11 backlash.
This website is good for the Language Arts teacher or classroom. It has many links to primary sources regarding Shakespeare and other English topics. If a teacher were to delve deeply into the meaning or topics of Shakespeare's works, this would be a good place for students to get information.
This site has a large amount of information regarding anything you might want to know about slave history in a variety of locations. There are narratives, court records, newspapers, and much more.
I chose this site because it has first-hand accounts of many famous historical events that might be pertinent in a history classroom. What could be more interesting for a student to read than an account of an event from someone who experienced it.