From: Craver, K.W. (1999). Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Furnishes a Library of Congress research primary source guide to the study of African American history and culture.

American History Archive
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha.html
Still under construction, this site contains digitized documents and media sources about the American Revolution and the Civil War.

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, American Memory includes forty one digitized collections filled with primary sources about various periods and events in American history.

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Features primary source documents from all over the world in law, history, and government from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries.

Chicano
http://www.nlcc.com/
Provides several primary sources related to Chicano history in addition to a timeline, a bibliography, a list of related Internet sites, and ideas for stimulating class discussions.

Chronology of the United States Historical Documents
http://hamilton.law.ou.edu/hist/
Contains hundreds of primary sources about United States history from the pre-colonial period to the present day.

Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/civwar2.html
Provides maps, letters, first‑person accounts, and other primary sources about the American Civil War.

Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0001.html
Includes selected primary sources from France's National Library, ranging from sources about various French monarchs of the late eighth century to documents relating to present‑day France.

The Documents Room
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs_main.html
Features a full‑text electronic library of primary source documents about the Catholic Church, the United Nations, Europe, world constitutions, and much more.

Duke University Special Collections Library
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/
Presents digitized collections from Duke University's Manuscript and Rare Book Departments about subjects such as papyrus, African American studies/ and women's studies.

Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
Includes primary source materials from eighteenth century America.

FDR Cartoon Archive
http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/fdr/index.html
Features cartoons from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932 to 1943. The cartoons have been arranged within categories related to the New Deal, foreign relations, farm issues, the Supreme Court, and other areas.

Frontline: The Gulf War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/index.html
Filled with maps, oral histories, chronologies, transcripts, and graphics, this site is an outstanding primary source database for information about the 1991 war with Iraq.

Gateway to World History
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/
This is a well‑organized site that lists large primary source databases within selected historical periods and topics.

The Great War: Interviews
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews
Includes comprehensive interviews with world‑renowned historians about various aspects of World War I

Hanover Historical Texts Project
http://history.hanover.edu/project.htm
Provides a vast array of primary sources divided by categories such as Europe, specific centuries, and continents. This is one of the best primary source databases on the Web.

Historical Documents on the Internet
http://www.cssjournal.com/sites.html
This is an extensive gateway site to primary sources in history. It is accessible by continent and also features a list of historical sites with a major emphasis on U.S. history.

Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/
Contains a banquet of primary sources that are accessible by continent, resources, and topics such as war, women, and Native Americans.

History, Archaeology, and Classics
http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/arts/history.html
A must bookmark for all history teachers, this site is a gateway to primary sources ranging from the ancient world to the present day.

The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
The History Channel features secondary and primary resources. Primary sources may be in the form of great speeches that changed the world, first‑person accounts, or a virtual tour of an ancient city.

History Online
http://tlc.discovery.com/guides/flashback/flashback.html
This site is part of the Discovery Channel. It contains selected feature stories, which may contain primary sources that are related to specific historical periods or events.

Horus' Web Links to History Resources
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/welcome.html
One of the best gateway sites to primary source Web sites, this site provides links to more than one thousand history sites.

HyperHistory
http://www.hyperhistory.com/
Includes a panorama of world history within a hyper-linked, colorful chronological chart.

Mining Co. News & Issues
http://home.about.com/arts/index.htm
Provides an excellent collection of primary sources about every period of history.

National Security Archives
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
This site furnishes significant research and documents about nuclear weapons issues and their history that have been declassified or requested through the Freedom of Information Act.

Normandy Exhibit
http://normandy.eb.com/normandy/
Contains a wealth of primary sources in the form of maps, images, first person accounts, battle plans, and documents about the D‑Day invasion at Normandy, France.

Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Includes a massive digital library of Greek artifacts, archaeological sites, buildings, coins, sculptures, vases, and other primary sources. A search engine facilitates access.

Personal Experience Accounts
http://www.justpublications.org/linklib/index.cgi
Accessible by categories such as contemporary daily life and general history, this site provides links to various personal accounts and diary excerpts.

POTUS
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/
Presents background material, election results, cabinet members, and important events about each United States president.

Primary Source Documents on the Holocaust
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html
Includes numerous documents related to the Holocaust such as the Wannsee Protocol, eyewitness accounts, speeches, and much more.

Scholarly Technology Group
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/
All of Brown University's Web-based projects can be accessed from this site, including such sites as The Victorian Web and World War 11.

Temperance and Prohibition
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/
Contains numerous primary sources about the temperance and prohibition movement in America during the nineteenth century.

This Day in History
http://www.historychannel.com/today/
Primary sources are not the sole focus of this site. Many, however, appear as part of the information given about particular events in history.

Treasures Digitisation Project
http://www.bl.uk/diglib/diglib_home.html
Includes a wide variety of digitized collections and exhibitions such as the Magna Carta and Beowulf from the British Library.

U‑Boat War
http://uboat.net
Filled with photographs, personal accounts, and biographical information about the submariners who commanded U‑boats during World War II, this site also documents war crimes committed by both the Allied and Axis powers.

United States Historical Census Data
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
Includes census data from 1790 to 1970 that are searchable by several variables.

United States National Archives
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/
Presents digitized primary source documents and images from different periods of history that are in the National Archives collections.

University of Kansas History Resources
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/
Contains one of the largest collections of links to all history topics. This is an excellent history gateway site.

Valley of the Shadow
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Provides primary source documents, images, sounds, and historical discussions about two counties that were 100 miles apart on opposite sides of the Mason‑Dixon Line during the Civil War.

Vincent Ferraro Home Page
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm
Ferraro, a professor of international politics at Mount Holyoke College, has amassed an impressive set of Web links pertaining to international relations and U.S. foreign policy.

Voice of the Shuttle History Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/history.html
Accessible by continent, country, and topic, this site is one of the best history gateways for beginning any search for primary sources in any area of history.

Wiretap Documents Server
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Gov/
Includes a collection of historical documents that are in the public domain.

World‑Wide Web Virtual Library: History
http://www.vlib.org/History.html
Provides a vast array of secondary and primary sources ranging from subject catalogues to electronic documents about many different periods and events in history.