And Justice For All:
Using Primary Source Materials to Bring a Social Justice Perspective in Your Classroom.
Links to History Resources and Digital Primary Source Materials

This lists below represents a small but carefully considered list of links to materials useful in the construction of understanding of history, many that provide resources on traditionally marginalized groups or individuals. 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.

A Document History of Social Justice - http://www.sojust.net/
Civil Rights Documentation Project - http://www.usm.edu/crdp/index.html
Civial rights digital Library - http://crdl.usg.edu/
Digital Library of Georgia, Freedom Riders - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu
Indigenous People's Literature - http://www.indigenouspeople.net/body_final.html
National Museum of the American Indian - http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx
Museum of Tolerance - http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201
Images of African Americans from the 19th century - http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
USC Primary Source Database for African American Studies: http://libguides.usc.edu/content.php?pid=46050&sid=340225
Internet Archives, (all manner of resources)- http://www.archive.org/index.php
Repositories of Primary Sources - http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
Valley of the Shadows, Civil War - http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Library of Congress Resources - http://www.loc.gov/
National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/
Digital Public Library - http://dp.la/
American Memories - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Treasures of the Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
Letters from America's Wars - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
Our Documents - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
World Digital Library - http://www.wdl.org/en/
Critical Past videos and photos - http://www.criticalpast.com/
911 Digital Archive - http://911digitalarchive.org/gallery_index.php
National Park Service: Treasures of our Nation - http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/treasures/
National Digital Library - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html
Berkeley Digital Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
Duke University Special Digital Collections - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/
Avalon Project: law, history, and diplomacy - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
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/
From Revolution to Reconstruction: primary source documents - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/
Holocaust Photos - http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/photos/
Archiving Early America - http://earlyamerica.com/
Primary Sources of Popular Culture - http://www.authentichistory.com/
Martin Luther King Archive - http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
The Sixties Project: Archives: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary.html
Historical Advertisements - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Minnesota Historical Society, Visual Resources Database - http://greatriversnetwork.org/index.php?brand=cms
NARA The Digital Classroom - http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
NASA Educator Resource Center - http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ercn/home/index.html
Native American Women - http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/
National Geographic - http://nationalgeographic.com/
Panoramic Photographs - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/
Moving Images and Sound Recordings - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.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
Online Gallery of Great Books - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
French National Digital Library - http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN
Repositories of Primary Sources - http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
1940s Dr. Seuss Political Cartoon Library - http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/

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/
Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions
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/
Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html
Virtual Egyptian Museum - http://www.virtual-egyptian-museum.org/
Global Egyptian Museum - http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/
Virtual Tour of Knossos - http://www.bsa.ac.uk/knossos/vrtour/
Virtual field trip links: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/vft.htm
World Art Treasures - http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/

Interesting Historical Resources
100 Milestone Documents Throughout our History - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
1676 Bacon's Rebellion - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800
1776 Thomas Paine: "Common Sense" - http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/
1823 Monroe Doctrine - http://www.ushistory.org/documents/monroe.htm
1847 Dred Scott Decision - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
1849 Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience" - http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
1852 Fredrick Douglas: "The meaning of the 4th of July for the Negro" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
1861 The Morrill Tariff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Tariff
1870 Voting Rights (15th) Amendment - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=44
1893 Sherman Anti Trust Act - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=51
1914 Joe Hill, labor activist - http://www.joehill.org/index.html
1917 American Protective League - http://hnn.us/articles/960.html
1900s Eugene Debs, Socialist - http://debsfoundation.org/index.html
1914 Ludlow Massacre - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5737/
1920 Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchists - http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html
1922 The Bonus Army and "battle of Washington" - http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-worldwar/5831
1929 The Great Depression - http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm
1938 Langston Hughes; "Let American be America Again - http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609
1945 The Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb - http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/educators/study-guides/history_decision-to-drop-bomb.htm
1954 Brown vs. Board of Education - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=87
1955 Civil Rights Movement - http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/
1960 The Culture of the 60s - http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html
1965 Voting Rights Act - http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100
1968 Vietnam War -http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=18&smtid=1
1971 The Pentagon Papers - http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/
1972 Watergate - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/
1973 Webquest on Wounded Knee - http://bcsd.k12.ny.us/middle/michalek/investigating_wounded_knee_in_19.htm
2006 Wiki Leaks - http://wikileaks.org/

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