Making History Personal:
Using Primary Source Materials and
Digital Learning Stories in your Classroom
Links to History Resources and Digital Primary Source Materials

This list below represents a small but carefully considered list of links to materials useful in the construction of understanding of history. This compilation includes audio, video, document, images and other resources that can be very useful in developing a multimedia reflection on or analysis of a segment of history. The next page describes a technique for presenting a perspective on history, digital learning stories.

Internet Archives, (all manner of resources)- http://www.archive.org/index.php
Valley of the Shadows, Civil War - http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Library of Congress Resources - http://www.loc.gov/
American Memories - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Treasures of the Library of Congress - http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
A Document History of Social Justice - http://www.sojust.net/
Indigenous People's Literature - http://www.indigenouspeople.net/body_final.html
Our Documents - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
Critical Past videos and photos - http://www.criticalpast.com/
911 Digital Archive - http://911digitalarchive.org/gallery_index.php
National Geographic - http://nationalgeographic.com/
National Park Service: Treasures of our Nation - http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/treasures/
National Digital Library - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
Berkeley Digital Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
Duke University Special Digital Collections - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/
Avalon Project: law, history, and diplomacy - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Today in History - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
History Matters: a Survey Course - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Chronology of American Historical Documents - http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
US Patent Office - http://patft.uspto.gov/
Making of America - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Archiving Early America - http://earlyamerica.com/
Historical Advertisements - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Minnesota Historical Society, Visual Resources Database - http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/search.cfm?bhcp=1
NARA The Digital Classroom - http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
NASA Educator Resource Center - http://www.cotf.edu/erc/main.html
Native American Women - http://photoswest.org/exhib/gallery4/leadin.htm
Panoramic Photographs - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/pphoto/history.html
Letters Written by the Pilgrims - http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/letters.php
World Wide Web Virtual Library - http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History - http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
French National Digital Library - http://gallica.bnf.fr/default.htm
Repositories of Primary Sources - http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Virtual Tours
American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/
Ellis Island, NY 1900-1920 Photographic Exhibit - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/070_immi.html
Holocaust Museum Tour -http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/index.cfm
Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/special/index.asp
National Museum of Women's History - http://www.nmwh.org/
National Museum of Women in the Arts - http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian - The World's Largest Museum - http://www.si.edu/
U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/
Virtual Egyptian Museum - http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/museum.htm
Virtual Tour of Knossos - http://www.bsa.gla.ac.uk/knosos/index.htm?vrtour
Virtual field trip links: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htm
World Art Treasures - http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/

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