WWII
U.S. History and World History in Context (bengals)
World War II Images and Art
Diaries and Journals
University of Washington Collection of WW II Primary Sources
Library of Congress State Standards
DocsTeach — Includes online activities that can be completed on the website then emailed to teachers.
Local Collections
Utah State University Digital Library The digital collections of USU can be found here. Many of these collections contain digitized materials from Merril-Cazier Library’s Special Collections. There are truly amazing collections here (e.g. De Villers Book of Hours (Links to an external site.)), Utah specific collections (e.g. Highway 89 ), and really fun ones (e.g. The Bear Lake Monster ).
Utah Digital Newspapers Find digitized copies of many of Utah’s newspaper. A great website for doing historical research.
Mountain West Digital Library “A central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. We provide free access to over 900,000 resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies, and government agencies, counties, and municipalities in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, Hawaii, and other parts of the U.S. West.”
Geography
Culturegrams on Utah’s Online Library — Includes activities and worksheets students can complete with information from the Database
Geography for Geographers
Middle and High School apps for Geography
Geographic Resources from the Smithsonian
World Mapper
Gapminder
Appalachian State University has a crazy list of things
General Reference
U.S. History and World History in Context (bengals)
Library of Congress State Standards with associated primary source sets
DocsTeach — Includes online activities that can be completed on the website then emailed to teachers.
TPS teacher network, requires login but they just started a group about teaching primary sources online
Library of Congress Revisiting the 1918 Spanicsh Flu Epidemic
ABC-Clio Open access resources
A few years ago I did a presentation on where to find Primary Sources for free, here is the list we came up with
