Classroom Internet Library
Primary Sources
 Three Centuries of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera 
Browse through this collection of more than 10,000 items from the Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress. Items include proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, election tickets, catalogs, clippings, timetables, and menus capturing the everyday activities of ordinary people from the American Revolution to present day. You can search the collection by author, title, geographic location, or genre.
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Our Documents
This site features 100 milestone documents from American history from George Washington's Farewell Address to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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AMDOCS
From excerpts from Christopher Columbus' journal to President Bush's Inaugural speech, this site from the University of Kansas lets students explore the American story with primary source documents.
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NY Public Library Digital Image Database Project
This incredible database contains thousands of images from the Library's vast Research Collections in the arts, humanities, sciences, and performing arts and contains digitized artwork, maps, photographs, prints, manuscripts, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
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National Archive and Records Administration
You'll find a wide variety of primary source documents and resources here. The Federal Register contains the full text of Federal regulations, public laws and Presidential documents. The Exhibit Hall features collections documents and artifacts of American history from the Declaration of Independence to an exhibit on Elvis Presley's 1970 meeting with Richard Nixon.
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EyeWitness
Learn about history from the people who lived it. First person accounts, images, and audio files of historical events ranging from an account of the destruction of Pompeii by Pliny to Harry Truman's reflections on being President help put a human face on our past.
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