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Digital Libraries and Historical Archives
The Digital Classroom site at the National Archives' serves as gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students. The site includes access to primary sources and materials on how to analyze historical sources so they can be used as evidence as part of the process of historical inquiry.
The American Memory Site provides access to over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings to support the doing of history.
 The Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia houses a number of digital collections that support the teaching and learning of the doing of history. The collections include Virtual Jamestown, Valley of the Shadow, Geography of Slavery, Modern Virginia History, and Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
History Matters offers a range of resources, including 1000 primary documents in text, image, and audio; an annotated guide to 850 of the best U.S. History websites; guides to using various kinds of online primary sources, such as oral history and maps; and moderated discussions about teaching.
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