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This website is based on the work of Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife’s Tale focused on an ordinary midwife, Martha Ballard, who lived in Maine in the late 1700s. Ulrich pieced together a full story of the midwife’s life and her world based on a diary that she left behind. The website emphasizes the techniques that Ulrich used. -
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Harvard’s Open Collections Program brings together thousands of primary sources from the university’s libraries and allows users to search and view them online. This extensive collection of historical material is available to the public free of charge. The site includes manuscripts, books, and images on the subjects of “Women and Work, 1800-1930" and "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930." -
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) web site for educators is an amazing resource for teacher and students of American history and civics. The site features everything from primary documents (original Brown v. Board of Ed. decision, Washington’s Farewell Address…all the good ones) to lesson plans for different era to interactive online activities. -
4voteA comprehensive database of federal laws and Congressional activities, THOMAS can provide students and teachers access to legislative texts. The subpage "Legislative Resources for Teachers" offers lesson plans and direct links to the classroom.
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