The following resources are available in the Oneonta High School Library and are considered primary sources - or documents. Print materials are listed first, followed by other media and electronic resources, including web sites.
 
 

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*20th Century America

*American Heritage Magazine

*Annals of America

*Cartoon News (political cartoon magazine)

*Chronicles of America

*Contemporary Issues Series

*Jackdaws

*Page One

Also many diaries, memoirs, personal accounts are available and can be accessed by using the M3OPAC.

All OSD libraries have local history documents, and should be explored.

Photographs/Cassette Kits

*Peace & Prosperity 1953-61

*Truman Years 1945-53
 
 

Non Print Sources

*American Decades(20th century selections) CD ROM

*SIRS Government Reporter - accessed through SIRS Knowledge Source on the web

*Jackdaws Photo Collection

See handout from: Kathleen Graver / Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. This is an excellent collection of web sites concentrating on the social studies curriculum.

Here are a few sites to begin your exploring:

GENERAL PRIMARY DOCUMENT SITES

* American Memory - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

American Memory is a project of the National Digital Program of the Library of Congress intended to bring important American historical materials to citizens everywhere. Includes over 70 multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, motion pictures and text.
 
 

* National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.archives.gov/

This page contains reproducible documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States,as well as teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and cross-curricular connections.
 
 

* Yale University Library Primary Sources Research -

http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm

Created to support a series of colloquia in historical research offered by the Yale University Library.

* EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents

http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs

Provides links to Western European historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Arranged by country and then chronologically.
 
 

* Longmans American History Website

http://longman.aw.com/history/home.htm

Recommended by the Oneonta Middle School
 
 

SPECIFIC PRIMARY DOCUMENT SITES (Includes good non-primary information as well)

Check this first - a fantastic resource!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history.html

GLOBAL STUDIES

* Medieval Studies - http://www.castlesontheweb.com/search/Medieval_Studies/
 
 

American History

* Early America Archives - http://earlyamerica.com/index.html

* 1800-1925 - http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

Making of America

* Civil War - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

Valley of the Shadow - The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. The project is intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and universities.
 

An article about using Primary Documents:

Using Primary Sources on the Internet to Teach and Learn History - an ERIC Digest
 

* Explorers - http://www.studyweb.com/lit/bio/explore.htm

Leads to explorers and discoverers. Gives age levels for the links.
 
 

This is just a beginning. You may want to explore the history web sites collected by teachers and librarians in the OSD.

High School Library Social Studies page:

http://www.oneontacsd.org/hs/Socialstudies.html

Middle School Library Media center Page:

http://www.oneontacsd.org/ms/omslibrary.htm
 

Also if you don't know about web quests, check out:

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
 
 
 
 

Good Luck and Happy Searching!

Prepared by Deb Dalton, LMS at OHS

Updated 10/23/02