College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Library of Congress
Loc: History Firsthand: Primary Source Research
History Firsthand has been designed to provide elementary children with experiences which enable them to begin understanding primary sources. Students move from personal artifacts to the vast American Memory collections and learn how...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
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Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
Brigham Young University
Euro Docs: Online Sources for European History
Connect to primary source documents (facsimiles. transcriptions, translations) that trace the history of Europe.
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Middle Tennessee State University: The Progressive Era
This site offers a plethora of primary source documents to further your understanding of the Progressive Era. Background on this time period and a bibliography for further research are provided. Documents include flyers, pictures,...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: America Goes to War
This module uses excerpts from four presidential speeches delivered during World War ll as a means to instruct students about finding the central idea and supporting evidence in primary source documents.
Library of Congress
Loc: Sourcing a Document: The First Thanksgiving
In this activity, students discuss the reliability of a painting of the First Thanksgiving to introduce the idea that is crucial to consider a source's date.
Library of Congress
Loc: Her Story
A rich Library of Congress resource page that is filled with links to historical and primary documents offering a female perspective throughout history. Lesson plan links are also given.
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Settlement House Movement Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary sources from Progressive Era about the Settlement House Movement. Includes downloadable teacher materials, student materials, and primary source documents.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Albert Parsons Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students read six different sources that provide insight into what happened at Haymarket Square...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Understanding the Black Death
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students compare two primary source documents to investigate how people experienced or understood the plague in 1348. Inlcudes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Hamilton v. Jefferson
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. In this inquiry lesson, two letters to George Washington allow students to consider the competing politics...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: John Brown
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students must determine whether John Brown was a "misguided fanatic," by examining a speech by...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Maine Explosion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War, the New York Times and...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Political Bosses
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sedition in World War I
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read anti-war literature from World War I critics to...
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...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents
Refer to the documents pertaining to Prohibition on this site when using the accompanying activities. In addition practice analyzing primary source documents with the worksheet that is provided.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Segregation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate a central historical question. In this investigation, students contextualize President Theodore Roosevelt's turn-of-the-century speeches and letters...
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Outrider: Nuclear History: World War Ii
A timeline with primary source documents and photos of the invention and use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Links to additional information and videos are also provided.
Read Works
Read Works: Analysis of the Declaration of Independence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief analysis of the Declaration of Independence. A paired passage, a lower level passage with related content, a questions sheet, and an additional answer sheet are...
US National Archives
Docsteach: The School Lunch Program and the Federal Government
Students will draw upon the visual and textual data presented in photographs and documents to gain an understanding of how the federal school lunch program is a direct result of the Great Depression, how it became a permanent part of the...
Ohio State University
Osu: Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods: Cook or Perry?
The controversy still is hotly debated! Who reached the North Pole first? Young scholars can use primary documents and put on a mock trial to discuss the claims of Cook and Peary. Using the 21st-century skill of critical analysis, they...