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A resource providing documents in US History from the 1600s to present day. The overwhelming majority of these primary sources are presidential speeches/inaugural adresses and famous supreme court cases.

These is a website that provides quality educational resources. This website directs you to primary source documents that can be used for various activities or lessons. You can also buy various materials for teaching which are categorized by subjects.

I thought this site was especially fitting for our CI 335 class because it helps teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum and classrooms. It has links to an online textbook, primary source documents, videos, and much more.

The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology among many things.

This site is devoted to primary sources and ideas for teachers on how to teach a specific era of history. This site includes links to movies, powerpoint slides, primary source documents, lesson plans, and handouts for teachers.

This website was put together by the Library of Congress. It is full of incredibly useful primary sources, including pictures, documents, and sound recordings.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has access to the original journals, maps, and other artifacts (some are just typed in and not the original document) from several important players in Illinois and Wisconsin History

The hyperlink posted is specific to Marquette and Joliet. Here is the general link to their library archives http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/

This is a reference site that contains many of the most important historical documents from United States history

This listing provides links to some of the best internet portals and collections of primary documents.

These archives from Yale Law School include links to various primary source documents from the September 11 terrorist attacks. The Avalon Project gathers various documents dealing with Law, History and Diplomacy which could be very useful when discussing history, or current events.

The purpose of this website is to provide the classroom with an accessible website with easy to find primary documents, which serves an especially significant purpose in a social studies classroom.

An amazing source for declassified United States' documents that could easily be used for primary sources in a modern U.S. or world history classes. These could be used for a in-class debate as the National Security Archive houses many documents on very controversial issues in history. I would also highly recommend looking through them to provide yourself with different prospectives as a future teacher.

This is a great site that has units on A TON of social studies units broken down with detail and documents that were used with these lessons

This website is an immense interactive map of the Eastern front during WWII. It is filled with chronological events, primary documents, pictures, interview, and many other resources.

Website containing many collections of pictures and documents that are relevant to the history of Illinois.

This site gives example lessons and great references of propaganda used during WWII, Women's Suffrage, etc.

Tons of information on topics for middle and high school level, documents, and images.

This is one of the most comprehensive search engines and websites in the world on the Vietnam War. It has over 3.2 million pages scanned materials from government and military documents, newspaper articles, photographs, maps, artifacts, sound/audio recordings, etc. Great for finding material, resources, and primary sources.

This is a website that focuses on the history of women from all parts of the world. Has teaching materials with primary sources, lesson plans, document-based questions, and other supporting resources. Ideally for a high school curriculum.

I have used this link in one of my classes at the University. It includes documentation of every slave voyage (from where it left and where it was headed), how many slaves were on the voyage, and from where they were from. It contains maps, graphs, etc., and is very interactive.

Here is a website many of you may be familiar with. For those of you who are not, this contains many different videos, documents and blogs about education. This is very helpful and engaging.

This site contains lots of documents relating to large events in American history and can be a good resources page for primary sources.

Here is a blog that contains letters written during WWII. Good source of primary documents if you are able to sort through some of the advertisements.