Education Reform and Innovation

History Primary Source Web sites

Valley of the Shadow – Two communities on opposite sides of the Mason Dixon line in the Civil War
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

History Matters – This site has a collection of many primary source websites and a search feature to find good sources
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

American Memory Collection Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/
This site is the most comprehensive source of primary sources for the Library of Congress and includes rare maps, civil war photographs, and many other types of documents from American history.
Slave Narratives
http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

California Gold Rush Narratives
http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html

A Midwife’s Tale – Diary of Martha Ballard. This site is based on the book A Midwife’s Tale and transcribes the entire diary of Martha Ballard from 1785 –1812, a midwife in an early settlement in colonial Maine.
http://www.dohistory.org

The New Deal and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Presidency
This site is an archive of documents from the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration during the New Deal period.
http://newdeal.feri.org/

National Archives and Records Administration
This site digitized collections from State Archives. It includes many government records including census reports and presidential and other leaders’ correspondence from state archives around the country.
http://www.archives.gov/