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This guide is intended to help students find primary resources. More and more primary resources are being digitized and made available to researchers on the web, but it can be quite difficult to find them. This guide will provide links to collections and will be updated on a regular basis and with new theme topics relating to state and local history each year.

Fordham University offers numerous full text online documents that have been translated into English for primary source use. Many of the sources are geared towards grades 9-12 research projects. Use of these sources would provide a great resource to any project or paper.

The Digital Public Library of America has provided primary source sets to aid students in the development of critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature and culture through primary sources. The site uses numerous primary sources ranging from different typed and fields of study. Each set includes a topic overview, 10-15 primary sources, links to related resources and a teaching guide.

Project Gutenburg is a great research aid that provides over 53,000 free online books. The website is a great tool for locating primary sources. The sites search engine is selective and can only use one-word topics. Note: Project Gutenberg is not accessible via clicking the link. To access the site, you must copy and paste the below link into the web browser of your choice. Once you have entered the link, then select the search option labeled as “Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg – Gutenberg” to access the site.

The Library of Congress Primary Source Sets provides students and teachers with primary source videos, pictures and personal stories from each era in U.S. history. This is a great resource for research papers, presentations and classroom activities. With each set of sources is a section on each state. Be sure to check out the sources attributed to South Dakota!

Provides a basic background on how to engage students, develop critical thinking skills and basic knowledge for research projects and papers. Helps engage students on how to question research and look for real answers.

This website uses a series of questions to teach students how to think about, analyze and identify primary sources. Questions are centered on where the source comes from, who wrote it and why. Great beginning questions can be found on the website that lead to bigger questions. This site is a useful starter activity for students who are looking to understand how to identify and use primary sources.

The citation guide teaches users how to correctly cite using Chicago style citation. Examples of how to do Chicago are included with each example of how to use it properly for newspapers or government publications.

Great source to not only find examples of works cited/bibliography but also for endnotes. Gives examples of places to find unpublished or published documents.

Purdue Owl is a great way to create citations, endnotes or footnotes. Purdue Owl gives an introduction to the sources and explains common elements found in a bibliography and footnote. On the side bar, examples of different sources and resources for writing in Chicago can be found and utilized by students or teachers needing to relearn Chicago style. Purdue Owl is one of the most used sources among historians to cite evidence in their papers and presentations.

Not Another History Teacher offers effective tools to incorporate project-based learning into your classroom. The site offers helpful goals, tips and rubrics to support success in the classroom. The site contains numerous trivia games, advice on new ways to grade, resources for common core lesson plans and effective tools for finding good primary sources.

Primary Source works with teachers, schools and educational organizations to offer professional development courses and resources that promote global education. The website offers numerous online classes, seminars, curriculum resources and international study tours pertaining to various events in world history.

Developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation, Smithsonian History Explorer offers hundreds of free online resources for teaching and learning American history using actual artifacts from the Smithsonian Archive. The site contains numerous videos, podcasts, webinars, a digital museum artifact collection and teacher resources that allow users to learn history through artifacts. The site also contains resources aimed specifically at National History Day.

Google contains many unique search tools that can greatly help in research pursuits.

: Google’s online marketplace for finding books to purchase by both digital download or by mail, also holds thousands of free online publications that are perfect for historical research. A simple Google Books search will bring up both primary and secondary sources to aid in research endeavors. Using the tools button under the search bar, you can set your search to free, and narrow down your search further by document type, year of publication and relevance. When in search of free publications you can also type your subject matter into the search bar with the word free next to it, and all free publications on that subject will show up.

: Google's image search has a unique set of tools that allows users to search the internet for images that are labeled for free use and modification. This is a powerful tool for supplying imagery for research projects, video documentaries and more. Google’s image search tools also allow users to search by image type, for example, if you were looking for only photographs or line drawings. User can also narrow down their search by color scheme. Google image search also has a unique function where users can reverse image search. By clicking on the camera icon in the search bar, users can upload a photo from their computer, and search the internet for that image and similar images. This is a powerful tool that helps users to track down information regarding images. For example, if you found an old black-and-white image you wanted to use, but were not sure of its original source location, or the details of the image, you could reverse search the image with Google image search and find where else it is located online. This would ideally allow you to find find a reputable and scholarly source location to download the image and cite from.

ED Tech Teacher offers multiple lesson plans and teacher resources, such as timelines, maps, virtual tours, electronic field trips using Google Earth and a large selection of websites that offer classroom friendly games and quizzes.

This resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. The site contains numerous high-quality images of historic map documents that illustrate American history via geographical dimensions. Each map is accompanied by a grade-level specific lesson plans designed to support a variety of social studies, history and geography curriculum.

The Library of Congress provides numerous free lesson plans, classroom resources and professional development opportunities that can be utilized in the classroom.

Teach Hub offers multiple activities related to history topics, professional development opportunities, information on graduate programs. The site is aimed at K-12 educators.

• • South Dakota Public Broadcasting provides numerous videos pertaining to the history, art, literature and personal stories of South Dakota. SDPB is especially helpful to students creating historical documentary projects, as it offers numerous examples of how to portray historical research in a video format. Some videos require membership to SDPB, but most are free.
• • Echoes and Reflections is a multimedia program that provides U.S. secondary educators with professional development and print and online resources to teach about the Holocaust in today’s classroom.
• • The History Channel provides short videos for teacher’s lesson plans and is a great resource for interactive learning. It has over 300 videos to use. The bottom of the page provides different categories to choose videos from including baseball, World War II and most eras of modern history. Each video is one to five minutes long and would be a great tool to get students interested in your subject.
• • The museum provides over 2,500 videos dealing with the Holocaust. Video material includes the liberation of camps like Auschwitz and Dachau, and there are also personal videos of the architects of the Holocaust and Nazi propaganda videos. Scattered throughout the videos are German military videos from the war.

• • This is an easy-to-use, free professional editing tool. Windows Movie Maker no longer comes automatically downloaded for Windows 10 users and must instead be downloaded for free from the Microsoft Store.
• • This user-friendly yet advanced software allows users to create Hollywood-style trailers and stunning 4K resolution movies. The software comes installed on Apple iPhones and Mac computers. It is only supported by Apple products.
• • This is a free video editing software aimed at advanced users. This software is best for tech-savvy students who wish to learn how to use large-scale video editing software.
• • This free video editing software is similar to Windows Movie Maker, but with some additional features included. The software also comes with numerous video and audio filters, which are fully customizable. Simply choose a filter and click the plus icon to apply it, then make adjustments using the simple system of checked boxes and sliders. It’s a brilliant system that makes even advanced effects simple to understand. Shotcut is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• • This video editing software is free for noncommercial use and is a beginner-friendly replacement for Windows Movie Maker. Unlike many free video editing software, VideoPad will not apply watermarks to your finished projects when exported.
• • Keepvid is a tool that you can use to convert YouTube videos to save. The free online video downloader allows you to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch.Tv, Dailymotion, Youku, Tudou, Metacafe, etc. and save them for personal use. Files are normally saved in a .mp4 file format.

• • WeVideo is a powerful and easy-to-use, cloud-based collaborative video editor. Schools can purchase licenses that give students access to the online video editor. This resource is great for documentary projects, as it allows the student the ability to work on their projects anywhere an internet connection is available and allows them to save their work in a secure cloud-based storage location that can be accessed at school or at home.
• • This is a professional video editing software that is ideal for users who have mastered beginner software like iMovie and Windows Movie Maker who wish to move on to more advanced editing software. Adobe offers school, student and teacher discounts. This software is incredibly advanced, as it is used by filmmakers.
• • This is a professional video editing software that is ideal for users who have mastered iMovie who wish to move on to more advanced editing software. Note that this product is only supported on Apple products.

The museum’s Pinterest is updated regularly with new resources ranging from specific classroom subject resources, STEAM resources, research resources and classroom activities. Check back regularly for new resources!

The Library of Congress offers teacher-created, classroom-tested lesson plans using primary sources. Search by topic, era or by alphabet to find the specialized topic you need.

With topics ranging from the Revolutionary War to the present, Smithsonian Education serves as a great tool for historical inquiry. Smithsonian Education provides K-12 grade lesson plans that contain numerous activities to utilize in the classroom. Spanish language lesson plans are also available.

The State Historical Society of North Dakota has created in-depth, user-friendly online interactive lessons and resources that relate to North Dakota History topics. Currently there is material geared at fourth and eighth grade.

Wisconsin Historical Society provides a plethora of unique lesson plans ranging from life the environmental impacts of life in a lumber camp to lessons on German ancestry. Click your topic of interest, grade level and objectives to fully customize the lesson plans to your needs. Resource materials, procedures and bibliographical information can be easily accessed, making it a wonderful tool for National History Day projects.

is a great resource for researching South Dakota history. Volumes range from 1970 to present day, and cover a variety of topics pertaining to South Dakota history. This would be a great resource for research on a state projects for National History Day or more advanced research.

is a free and online, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. The textbook is collaboratively built by college instructors and is an open resource meant to be downloaded, distributed and modified by its users. The project is formally operated under a and is designed to meet the standards of a .

is both an online site and app that helps in the development of unique documents, formatted for various uses ranging from social media, publications, email, postcards, etc. The site utilizes a drag-and-drop feature that allows users to easily create professional layouts with professional graphics, clip art and fonts. The site contains thousands of free layout options and is a perfect introduction to graphic design in an easy to use format.

is a search engine that allows users to find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CCO into the public domain. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, for commercial purposes, all without asking for permission or giving credits to the artist. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights, so be sure to read attached disclaimers clearly. This website is great for finding images, vector graphics and clip art to utilize in videos, presentations and many other projects.

was developed by the Native Lands Advocacy Project, a project of , a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with funding from the The NLIS serves as repository of learning resources, information and data to help defend and protect Native lands for the benefit of Native peoples. It aims at challenging the status quo around historical data colonialism in Native lands.

are 50 extraordinary letters written by Dakota men imprisoned after the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. They give direct witness to a harsh and painful history shared by Minnesotans today.