Website
Other

University System of Georgia: Civil Rights Digital Library

For Students 9th - 10th
Compilation of primary resources from broadcasters, museums, libraries, and other content repositories, constituting a scholarly collection of primary sources that document aspects of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit documents the critical role of propaganda in the Nazi effort to turn Germany into a totalitarian state driven to annihilate its enemies. Includes a gallery of primary source documents and artifacts, such as posters, books,...
Website
University of North Carolina

Unc University Libraries: Digital Collections: Evolution Controversy: Nc: 1920s

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital repository of information and documentation of a controversy in 1920s North Carolina over the teaching of evolution. Includes a timeline of events, access to primary sources addressing both sides of the debate, and biographies of...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Murder of Jews in Romania

For Students 9th - 10th
Romania had a long history of anti-Semitism and was an ally of the Nazis. Around 400,000 Jews were killed in Romanian-controlled areas during the war. Read a summary on Romania during WWII and view primary sources such as photos,...
Primary
Imperial War Museums

Imperial War Museum: 16 Amazing Photos From the Battle of Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers 16 primary source photos from the Battle of Britain including brief descriptions.
Primary
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Executive Order 9835

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the executive order from President Harry S. Truman which outlined the loyalty review program to examine the loyalty of federal employees. This was issued in response to anti-Communist hysteria at the time.
Website
Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: R. F. Shier: Uss Harvard Writes Home: Harvard Incident

For Students 9th - 10th
Letter written by Rex F. Shier during the Spanish American War, a marine serving aboard the USS HARVARD, in which he writes about the crewmen concerning the shooting of several Spanish prisoners of war aboard the vessel.
Primary
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Central of the Chinese Party

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1949, United States State Department issued a report on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The document explains how the existing Chinese Kuomintang government under communist leadership is failing to meet the...
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Women and the Temperance Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary set uses photographs, letters, posters, and publications to explore women and the Temperance Movement. Includes teaching guide.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Mormon Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this set help place the Mormon migration in geographic, political, religious, and cultural contexts, including other westward movement motivated by Manifest Destiny.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Churchill and the Great Republic: Memo. Of Conservation, Yalta

For Students 9th - 10th
From a larger Library of Congress exhibit on Winston Churchill, this document is a memorandum of a conversation Churchill had during a dinner at the Yalta Conference. Zooming in allows the document to be read.
Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Stories of the Wrights' Flights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has students read primary materials from the Smithsonian collection written by the Wright brothers, and compare and contrast them to secondary sources, such as newspaper stories from the next day. There is background...

Other popular searches