www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/ -- National Archives page including lessons and “featured documents.”  Also, links to pages that discuss the use of primary source documents in the classroom.

http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/wipionexp/ -- Wisconsin Pioneer Experience website; a collection or digitized primary sources documenting the history of 19th century Wisconsin pioneers.

www.library.wisc.edu – The University of Wisconsin system library search engine.  The library holds some primary sources, and the site includes some of the sources in a full text format.

www.historymatters.gmu.edu/ -- A gateway to primary sources and lesson plans for high school and college U.S. History teachers.

www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/lessons/ -- Elementary and secondary lesson plans on Wisconsin history using primary sources in the Wisconsin Historical Society collection.

www.ourdocuments.gov/ -- An exciting web page where students can explore original documents using digital technology.  Very cool!

www.uwdc.library.wisc.edu/index.shtml – A gateway for digital collections at the University of Wisconsin libraries.  From this site you can link to:

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI -- The State of Wisconsin Collection (published materials and archival materials such as books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, etc. relating to Wisconsin’s history and ongoing development.

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WIReader -- The Wisconsin Electronic Reader site (stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, etc. from Wisconsin history including many first-hand accounts)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/whsead -- The Wisconsin Historical Society Finding Aids (search page for primary sources held at the Wisconsin historical Society.  This site does not include scans of the documents themselves.)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SurveyNotes -- The Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records:  Original Field Notes and Plat Maps (Field notes and plat maps of the public land survey conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW -- The University of Wisconsin Collection (Images, manuscripts, papers, and books relating to the University’s history or mission.  Includes selections from the UW Archives, Badger yearbooks, etc.)

http://www.library.wisc.edu/text/Antiquities -- The Antiquities of Wisconsin (An online copy of The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham’s most important published work.  Includes 92 pages of text, 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates.  This work discusses Lapham’s research into Wisconsin’s Indian effigy mounds.

www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/materials.asp -- Link to Wisconsin Historical Society’s several online collections from this page.  Available collections include a state Turning Points collection with background information, documents, and activities about turning points in state history. 

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu – An “online textbook” with primary sources for U.S. history, hosted by the University of Houston.

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com -- Eyewitness accounts and photographs for historical world events from ancient history through the 20th Century.

Useful Links
Developed by the Outagamie County Historical Society with funding from Cooperative Education Service Agency 6, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and the U.S. Department of Education. © 2006 OCHS.