Article by Library of Congress with links to their resources for Primary Resources
The National Humanities Center presents America in Class®:
America in Class® is designed to promote the analytical skills called for in the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and literacy in history and social studies
American History Docs that Teach: Curated Documents from the National Archives aligned with National History Standards
http://docsteach.org/documents
The Avalon Project: Documents in History, Law, and Diplomacy (Documents start from 4000 BCE)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Media History Digital Library (Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting & Sound)
http://mediahistoryproject.org/
African American Odyssey Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
History Matters: contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
New York City Historical Documents/Photos/Recordings
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet
Denver Post Photo Blogs (Plogs) on Many Different Subjects
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/category/from-the-archive/
Retronaut--Searchable for Historical Images on many topics (part social media so may be blocked at school for students)
http://www.retronaut.com/
Old Pictures--photographs from the 1850's - 1940's
http://www.old-picture.com/
Life Magazine 1750-today (Many more photos than were published in the magazine)
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Six Online Free Resources for Primary Documents
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/online-resources-primary-source-documents-monica-burns
How to Use Google News to Find Primary Sources
BCPS Databases: Search results often yield primary sources
http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/feebased/
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