Resources for Research
Literary Fusions
General Resources
Sweet Search
This student-friendly search engine searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea.
Biography page: http://www.sweetsearch.com/biographies
Social Studies page: http://www.sweetsearch.com/socialstudies
Library of Congress
American Memory Project provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
For younger students:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/index.php
Their teacher site allows you to search by state standard: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/index.html
Browse archives of the Teaching with Primary Sources Journal: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/
Primary Source Analysis Tools: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.html
National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/education/
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute features Google's Art Project, Historical Moments, and World Wonders. Explore collections and exhibits from museums and archives from all over the world. Browse existing collections or create your own collections of digital artifacts to share with students.
Zoom In
Each U.S. History lesson is a document-based mini-unit that builds students' reading, writing and historical thinking skills. (Note: must sign up for an account to view lessons)
National Portrait Gallery
Search more than 100,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits (CAP), a survey of American portraits in public and private collections across the United States and abroad. The CAP encompasses portraits of American subjects or by American artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, miniatures, silhouettes, and daguerreotypes.
Internet Public Library
Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE)
The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore over 800,000 digitized items organized into various collections.
Biography.com
Search over 7,000 biographies. Each biography contains quick facts, videos, images and information. Great for more modern figures, but also contains historical biographies.
Google Custom Search Engine
Add your own websites to create a customized Google Search for students.
Resources by Topic
- Museums - birthplaces, homes, historical sites
- Universities - digital archives, collections
- State/National Organizations - libraries, archives, parks, monuments, museums
Texas History
American Revolution
Presidents
Inventors/Innovators
Jessica and Sherry
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Email: sherry@literaryfusions.com
Website: www.literaryfusions.com
Twitter: @literaryfusions
Google Custom Search Engine
Create a custom search engine that will search a specific set/list of websites that you choose.