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Surfing Goal
| - Find at least one
primary source that either you or a colleague could use
with students to enrich their studies and add it to your
Yahoo!® Bookmarks
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Resource Sites
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American
Memory Project: Perhaps the largest collection of digitized
primary sources materials relating to the history and culture of the United
States claiming over 7 million digitized items!
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American
Memory Project Learning Page - Support materials for educators
on the use of primary sources in the classroom.
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4-12 Lesson Plans - This site contains lesson
plans for grades 4 - 12 that include the use of primary
source materials. RECOMMENDED!
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American
Memory Timeline: selected primary sources on a variety of topics in United States
History arranged by chronological
period.
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Today
in History - This site posts new primary source content everyday on historical
events that took place on the same date in the past.
- Children
of Yesteryear - Good introduction to primary source materials
for younger children. Students answer 1 question about each
of 6 photographs of boys and girls from the early 1900's.
- Duke
University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library - contains over 7,000
historically
significant advertisements from 1911 to 1955, historic American
sheet music and scanned pages and texts of the writings
of African-American women, etc.
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Eyewitness
- History through the eyes of those who lived it: Featuring archived
photos, documents, and both verbal and written eyewitness accounts of famous
events in history.
- Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library and Museum: Check out the 'For Students'
and 'For Educators' sections.
- National
Archives and Records Administration Exhibit Hall - This site contains
historical documents for a range of important (and not so important) events in
American history, including the original
Declaration
of Independence,
Constitution, and the
Bill of Rights
as well as President
Nixon's
letter of resignation.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture - This extensive site contains primary
source materials that relate to Uncle Tom's Cabin and the impact it had on American culture. Read the original handwritten text, newspaper articles
and much more.
Famous Individuals from the Past
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Alexander Graham Bell - contains
historical materials including his first diagram of the
telephone, letters between Bell and other famous
individuals, and photographs
of his family (part of the American Memory project).
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Read the
letters that
American children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great
Depression. Includes lesson plans that can be adapted for
use in the K-5 classroom.
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Journeys of the Ingalls Family - Excellent companion piece to Laura Ingalls Wilder's popular
"Little
House" books (part of Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum).
- Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
- Thomas Edison
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