Primary Source Toolbox for Students
Archive of 19th Century Women's Writings
This archive has a number of writings from women in the 19th century that deal with various issues in their lives, such as slavery, religion, and dealings with Native Americans.
Primary Sources in US Cultural History
This is an archive that has a variety of primary and secondary sources that are about a variety of cultural topics in United States History. It leads to a number of other various online primary sources.
Library of Congress
You can use the archives at the Library of Congress to research a variety of topics and find primary sources to assist in your research. In this archive, you may find videos, pictures, periodicals, sound clips, manuscripts and more, particularly in American History. The LOC has separated this area into various time periods, so you can search for specific eras in US History.
Stanford History Education Group
At this site, you can search through a variety of topics, and find documents that relate to a variety of subjects in US History. This archive also has various ideas for lesson plans, so you can get an idea of how these documents may be used. This site has other links that show you how to Read like a Historian.
Docs Teach
This site offers another large variety of primary sources for students to use to find out about a time period in United States History. You can use this site to save documents for yourself to look at at a later date as well!
This archive has a number of writings from women in the 19th century that deal with various issues in their lives, such as slavery, religion, and dealings with Native Americans.
Primary Sources in US Cultural History
This is an archive that has a variety of primary and secondary sources that are about a variety of cultural topics in United States History. It leads to a number of other various online primary sources.
Library of Congress
You can use the archives at the Library of Congress to research a variety of topics and find primary sources to assist in your research. In this archive, you may find videos, pictures, periodicals, sound clips, manuscripts and more, particularly in American History. The LOC has separated this area into various time periods, so you can search for specific eras in US History.
Stanford History Education Group
At this site, you can search through a variety of topics, and find documents that relate to a variety of subjects in US History. This archive also has various ideas for lesson plans, so you can get an idea of how these documents may be used. This site has other links that show you how to Read like a Historian.
Docs Teach
This site offers another large variety of primary sources for students to use to find out about a time period in United States History. You can use this site to save documents for yourself to look at at a later date as well!
Below are the two document analysis tools that were talked about in the video above. You can download them and use them as you would like!
Lesson Plan Examples
Below we see a document lesson about the 18th Amendment from the Stanford History Education group. Take some time to look through this lesson and see what you should be looking at for each document, and what questions to consider. Make your own decision, why was the 18th amendment adopted?
Baseball on the World War I Homefront
This lesson plan activity from docsteach helps to show the popularity of baseball in the era during and after WWI when it emerged as America's past time. This activity has students looking at primary sources to analyze the growth of baseball and it's help to the American home front.
This lesson plan activity from docsteach helps to show the popularity of baseball in the era during and after WWI when it emerged as America's past time. This activity has students looking at primary sources to analyze the growth of baseball and it's help to the American home front.