Being that it is the season for making lists, I thought I would put together a list of my favorite primary source resources. This is just the initial list - I know there are several that I have forgotten to include. I plan to come back and add descriptions to these soon.
- Reading like a Historian and Beyond the Bubble http://sheg.stanford.edu/
- World History For Us All http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu
- National Archives document analysis sheets https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
- America in Class (especially Becoming Modern - 1920s) www.americainclass.org/
- Triangle 1911 Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/story/introduction.html
- First World War - Imperial War Museum Voices of the First World War http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
- Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/
- Internet Archives (have public domain newsreels and programs but have to be willing to dig for them) https://archive.org/details/universal_newsreels
- World War II Museum - timeline http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-teachers/lesson-plans/ww2-timeline-lesson.html
- National Endowment for the Humanities http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject/history-social-studies
- University California Irvine History Project https://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/resources/10thgrade_curriculum.php
- American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
- American Rhetoric http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html
- Street Law - Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/home
- Opposing Viewpoints Vol 1 and Vol 2 (note - these books are best suited for for honors or AP courses) Dudley, William, and John Chalberg. Opposing Viewpoints in American History. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2007. Print
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