Fourth Grade Primary Research & Biographies
Use one of the following websites to find information on your person:
National Archive
A great place to start for most subjects, especially:
Library of Congress Primary Sources
Try searching for images of these subjects:
-Archiving Early America
Go to this site if your person lived in Colonial America, during the American Revolution, or soon thereafter (Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Abigail Adams)
-Documenting the American South
Primary sources for people and issues of the South
Smithsonian Library and Archival Exhibits
-Look here for photographs and other artifacts
A list of many wonderful sites for primary sources of Anne Frank
To look for primary sources for people who are NOT Americans, try a Google search with your subject's full name, and the words PRIMARY SOURCES.
A few other sites:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/
National Archive
A great place to start for most subjects, especially:
- Amelia Earhart
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Rosa Parks
- Neil Armstrong
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Barack Obama
- Helen Keller
- Ben Franklin
- Albert Einstein
- Clara Barton
- Mark Twain
Library of Congress Primary Sources
Try searching for images of these subjects:
- Amelia Earhart
- Clara Barton
- Abigail Adams
- Ben Franklin
- Abraham Lincoln
- Rosa Parks
- Thomas Edison
- Mark Twain
- Helen Keller
- Maria Tallchief
- Michelle Obama
-Archiving Early America
Go to this site if your person lived in Colonial America, during the American Revolution, or soon thereafter (Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Abigail Adams)
-Documenting the American South
Primary sources for people and issues of the South
Smithsonian Library and Archival Exhibits
-Look here for photographs and other artifacts
A list of many wonderful sites for primary sources of Anne Frank
To look for primary sources for people who are NOT Americans, try a Google search with your subject's full name, and the words PRIMARY SOURCES.
A few other sites:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/