This collection uses primary sources to explore the American Indian Movement between 1968 and 1978. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Read the authentic notes on Virginia's selection of their delegates to the Federal Constitutional Convention. The transcript describes the nominations and the final tally - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Edmund Randolph, John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, and George Wythe.

This site features a draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible and summarizing text from Library of Congress.

Read George Washington's observations of the delegates, particularly the Anti-Federalists, at the Constitutional Convention, and the objections the opposition presented, which Washington cites in the letter. View an image of the original letter to James Madison, and read a transcript of the text.

This full-length play script illustrates the life of early American feminist and abolitionist, Lucy Stone, with strong historic perspective.

Read about the colonization in the New World by many European countries. Hyperlinks to you to more specific topics.

An interesting webpage in that it contains a brief summary of the history of the Regiment as well as the Casualty List from the assault on Fort Wagner and two historic photos.

Wonderful NARA site that provides pictures of the original treaty and agreements of the Louisiana Purchase. Brief introduction discusses the amount of land purchased and the cost per acre described by the Purchase.

A photograph from the National Archives and Records Administration of part of the original Treaty of Paris with a brief narrative about the provisions of the Treaty.

Read a copy of the Democratic Party Platform in the election of 1856. Of note is its equivocation on the issue of slavery.

View President Kennedy's remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress March 13, 1962 given to Latin American diplomats at the White House.

President George W. Bush discusses the new Medicare programs during his speech in November, 2005. Text of his speech is located on this site.

This site from the University of Massachusetts, Boston provides the text of Herbert Hoover's radio address to the US on October 18, 1931, regarding the unemployment situation.

On this site you will find the political party platforms of all parties from 1840 to the current year. A great resource and an interesting way to do comparing and contrasting.

President Truman issued a statement upon his signing of the Housing Act of 1949 supporting the act and explaining its importance to the peacetime economy.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Looking for an insight into the American Revolution? This site contains a collection of primary source documents that discuss personal experience, military, and political aspects of the war.

The original text of the "Military Journal, During The American Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1783" written by James Thacher on his observations of the events of the revolutionary period.

This is the text, audio, and video [40:52] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's Drell Lecture on innovation and cybersecurity delivered on April 23, 2015, at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.

This site is the homepage of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

This is a large site from American Treasures covering primary source documents from the early 1800s through the Civil War and on to Western Expansion.