Links listed below are a help as the students will be competing in the National History Day contest this year.
To view streaming video clips www.history.com
To view sample process papers; see the "Creating an entry" page in the Contest section. www.nhd.org
For related video clips www.history.com/video
This is the World Digital Library developed by the Library of Congress with UNESCO; site offers primary sources www.wdl.org
This is a portal to online collections and background information on United States history. (The Smithsonian Institute) www.si.edu
This site offers a customized and filtered Google search; it emphasizes.gov, .org, and .edu. A search trick: leave the lines BLANK and hit submit. This will allow you to narrow your search by variables such as topic, time, type of museum, etc. teachinghistory .org
This is a list of suggestions that the National Archives suggests for the "Debate and Diplomacy" theme. The website should be posted by November 22. www.archives.gov/education/history-day/index.html
A wonderful description of primary and secondary resources. http://library.edgewood.edu/help/primary-vs-secondary.pdf
Original documents from the Library of congress. See the original Land Grant from King Charles II to William Penn, March 4, 1681. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm115.html
Contact a librarian at the Library of congress with your questions! Be sure to give them 5 days to answer you. http://www.loc.gov//rr/askalib/ask-mss.html
A link to Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission page that has photographs of original (primary) PA documents. The site has transcripts too. http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objlD=8642