http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/
As part of a web site dedicated to the U.S. History Survey course organized by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Making Sense of History includes essays on using oral history, films, maps, numbers, letters and diaries, advertisements, popular songs and documentary photography.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/index.html
The Library of Congress provides information and rationales for using primary documents in teaching. You can find links to the American Memory project of the Library of Congress which includes many documents and sample lesson plans using those documents. We particularly recommend the section on Lesson Plans listed on the left hand side of the page, and the Lesson Framework once you've reached the Lesson Plans page.
http://dohistory.org/
Based on Laurel Ulrich's book A Midwife's Tale, this experimental website shows the research behind a secondary history book.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
Published by the American Library Association, this site is particularly good on how to search for and evaluate documents on the world wide web.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/processguides/HowToPrimaryS.html
One San Diego teacher has prepared a guide for students in using primary documents. We found it helpful.
Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams, Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom's Bittersweet Song (New York: Routledge, 2002).
Clarice T. Campbell and Oscar Allan Rogers, Mississippi, the View from Tougaloo (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1979).
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Steve Lawson and Charles Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1989).
Charles Marsh God's Long Summer: Stories of faith and Civil Rights (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (New York: Dial Press: 1968).
Richard Wright, Uncle Tom's Children (New York: Harper and Row, 1965, 1938).
Civil Rights in Mississippi, Digital Archive, University of Southern Mississippi http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/index.html
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968 South Kingston High School and Brown University Scholarly Technology Group http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Park Service; Federal Highway Administration http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982; Data and Program Library Service, Michael T. Aiken, N. J. Demereth III, Gerald Marwell, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin Madison http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Idealism/index.html
Afro American Almanac http://toptags.com/aama/
African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Freedom Library of Congress, American Memory Project http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html