University of Texas at Austin
Lbj Presidential Library: Discover Lbj
A searchable repository of the LBJ Presidential Library's digital collections.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.
Harp Week
Education at Harp week.com: The Reconstruction Convention Simulation
A simulation activity where students participate in a convention at the end of the American Civil War that never actually took place. Together they grapple with the issues that faced America in 1865 in dealing with the demise of slavery...
Sacred Text Archive
Internet Sacred Text Archive: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
The text of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch, published in 1855.
Other
Education at Harp week.com: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Simulation Game
A simulation game of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868, along with a wealth of material from articles and editorials published in Harper's Weekly at the time of the trial. The number of charges against him is...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources
Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...
Stanford University
Beyond the Bubble: Lange's Iconic Photograph
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Resettlement Administration was one of President Franklin Roosevelt's agencies that helped people from the Dust Bowl. This agency hired photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures that would build...
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Speech Defending Munich Agreement
A copy of a 1938 speech by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the House of Commons defending the Munich Pact.
Other
Mc Clung Museum of Natural History & Culture: Early Photographs of Egypt
A collection of 231 historical photographs of Egypt from the 19th century to the early part of the 20th century. They depict both ancient and modern Egypt and are organized into different periods of Egypt's history going back to the Old...
University of Iowa
Bringing History Home: My History at School
This unit introduces children to the concept of history as a story. By focusing on their experiences at school, students connect history concepts with personal experience and learn history using primary sources from their own lives. This...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Historic Documents: Magna Carta
A translation of the Magna Carta, broken into paragraphs for easier reading.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Diary of Anne Frank: How Would I Survive?
Lesson to be used following the reading of play The Diary of Anne Frank or the book Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. Students explore the Anne Frank Center website. In groups of five, students analyze the residents of the Secret...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Challenges of Making Peace: The Great War
For this interactive lesson, students watch videos from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Great War, read primary source documents and video transcripts, and analyze data to better understand how and why the U.S. and European leaders differed in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: The Bill of Rights
Explore why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution and its enduring impact on defining our rights. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument in response to the question "How does the Bill of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: One Person Can Change the World
In this module, students will read primary and secondary sources about events from the Reformation movement. They will identify the central ideas of the texts, and cite evidence from the text that supports the central idea.
Other
Harvest
Three modules explain what primary sources are; how to find primary sources in the UIUC archives; how to make sense of a primary source document by examining its creator, the context, and purpose of its creation.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This collection uses primary sources to explore Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Revolutionary War Turning Points: Saratoga and Valley Forge
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Battle of Saratoga and Valley Forge during the American Revolutionary War.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: The Revolutionary Americas
Find relationships among primary and secondary sources of information that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.
First World War
First World war.com: Primary Documents: The "Willy Nicky" Telegrams
The content of ten telegrams exchanged between the German Emperor, Wilhelm II, and the Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the period from July 29 to August 1, 1914.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1789 1820: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards historical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America in 1850: Frederick Douglass
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: The Age
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...