AVALON PROJECT AT YALE LAW SCHOOL

• Full-text documents in treaties, charters, speeches, declarations and other documents, B.C.-present.
• Documents are organized chronologically, then alphabetically by title.
• Documents are also grouped by subject (Example, ìIndians of North Americaî).
• They may also be searched.

WORKSHOP:
SITES ABOUT U.S. HISTORY

• Avalon Project
• Ourdocuments.gov
• SIRS
• American Memory
• National Archives & Records
• Vietnam Project

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OURDOCUMENTS.GOV

Impressive compilation of source documents (under 100 milestone documents), from the U.S. Constitution to the patent for the cotton gin.

Each document has:

• explanation of its role in history
• images of the original
• full text.

Example: Articles of Confederation, The Virginia Plan & others: discuss creation and ratification of the constitution (GOVT. 4)

Note the linking: explanation for the thirteenth amendment is linked to Emancipation Proclamation. (VUS 7B)

Teacherís Toolbox:

• sourcebook: a teacherís manual with a documents timeline.
• technologies and lesson plans on using documents in the classroom.
• Other resources

NOTE: "(GOVT. ##)" or "(VUS ##)" refers to the corresponding Virginia Standard Of Learning (S.O.L.).