The following link will only be available free for the next week, so don't hold this idea in the back of your head. The article is about how one history teacher (PhD) tried to teach high schoolers how to approach history in a more authentic manner, and the results of his efforts. He had hoped that with a single unit using primary sources and the tools of historians, it would make his students more critical of what they read in textbooks or what the accepted without question from the teacher, but it turned out to be not as easy as he thought: http://www.tcrecord.org:80/Content.asp?ContentID=12723 It got me to thinking. I'm not trained as a historian, and when I taught history it was primarily textbook in hand. Retired, I'm getting into comparing sources of information, but still not getting to much into primary sources (TJ's Farm and Garden Books, and the Jamestown Narratives excepted). A few days ago, Excalibur gave me some great suggestions on "primary sources" to add to my website under US & Virginia Government. As I was reading the referenced article, I was wondering how to provide more primary sources in history for K-12 students on my website. Of course, I would primarily be doing as the teacher in the article, choosing primary sources based on what is available on the web, but, in the hands of good teachers, it may be enough to enrich some intruction. Unfortunately, other than some sources, like the new database on the emigrants to Liberia, I have no idea what primary sources may be available online. Can folks on here make suggestions, either via the list, or private email to [log in to unmask] of links to primary sources I can begin to compile on my web pages? Thanks ever so much for whatever help is provided. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html