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Supplementary Reading Resources

Primary and Secondary Sources

The use of primary sources and other documents should be an integral part of a social studies program. Students should learn how to analyze historical documents and prepare essays and reports that describe different perspectives on various historical issues, events, and questions. Primary and secondary source documents can be found on a number of websites including the following:

American Historical Association

American Presidents

Amnesty International

Annals of Congress

Asia Society: Ask Asia

BBC Online Network

British Library

British Maps Home Page

Capital District Council for the Social Studies

Central New York Council for the Social Studies

CNN World News

Economic Education Web

Edsitement

Gilder Lehrman Collection

Internet History Sourcebook Project

Historical Atlas of the 20th Century

History: Central VCatalogue

The History Net

Law, Youth, and Citizenship

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress Country Studies

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Map Collections: 1544-1996

National Archives

National Council for the Social Studies

National Council on Economic Education

National Gallery of Art

National Geographic Society

The National Park Service

National Register of Historic Places

NATO 50th Anniversary

New York State Archives and Records Administration

New York State Council for the Social Studies

PBS Online

Perry Castañeda Library

Project WhistleStop

SUNY New Paltz Department of Geography

US State Department

University of Cambridge

University of Texas at Austin

Virtual Library History Index

Women Watch

Women's History Sourcebook

Yale University Library