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Sites To Use For Finding Primary Sources:
1. Our school media specialist, Mrs. Trimble, has a school website that can assist students with research. The website is: http://www.likeagoodbook.com/
2. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/ This site provides students with strategies to analyze primary and secondary source.
3. www.loc.gov/rss/ This Library of Congress site is called Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
4.www.loc.gov This Library of Congress site offers many links to various types of primary sources.
5. www.memory.loc.gov/ This Library of Congress site contains primary source images and maps of historical importance.
6. www.archives.gov/ This National Archives site offers many links to various types of primary sources.
7. www.http://historyexplorer.si.edu/artifacts/ This Smithsonian site links to actual artifacts/primary sources that are holdings in the museum.
8. www.ohiohistory.org/ This site for the Ohio Historical Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society) includes links to their archives that contains primary sources. The museum holding can also be used as primary sources.
9. www.ohiomemory.org This site for the Ohio Historical Connection allows digital access to primary sources.
10. www.americanrhetoric.com This site has an online databank of American rhetoric primary sources.
11. www.docsteach.org This site contains numerous primary source documents.
12. www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php This site contains primary source podcasts.
13. www.storycorps.net This site shares first-hand audio accounts of historical events.
14. www.teachingamericanhistory.org This site includes 50 core documents from American history.
15. www.gilderlehrman.org This site contains a number of primary source documents related to America's history.
16. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asp This is a website done by Fordham University in New York. It has a wealth of primary sources for ancient civilizations. It may take a bit of clicking around to find what you need, however.
17. http://www.historywiz.com/primarysources/ancientprimary.html This site contains primary sources for ancient civilizations.
18. http://www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/ This university site offers connections to a number of primary sources.
20. College libraries and historical societies in almost every state also have links to primary sources. For example, if you are studying Indian reservations, the University of Oklahoma library has a database with primary sources. Likewise, the Oklahoma Historical Society has an online research center with primary sources.
NOTE: Student should also be using InfOhio to locate reputable resources. Doing a Google search may bring up useful sites and some may include primary sources, but Google also brings up many sites that are not reputable. This included Wikipedia and Crystalinks. Students should only use these sites as a springboard to locate the sources these sites used. Neither Wikipedia or Crystalinks should be cited in bibliographies for National History Day projects.
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