Special Topics and Tools

DocsTeach is the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives.

• National History Day
• The Constitution
• The Records of Congress
• Election Collection
• Amending America
• Rights in America
• Native Americans
• American Revolution and New Nation
• Civil War
• World War I
• The Vietnam War
• The Nixon & Ford Years
• 1970s America
• Food in America
• Signatures

eBooks for iPad, iPhone, Android, eReaders, PC or Mac that illustrate American history and government through National Archives documents

• The Constitution
• Congress Creates the Bill of Rights
• Putting the Bill of Rights to the Test Student Workbook
• Congress in Political Cartoons
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons
• Baseball

• Professional Development
• Recorded National History Day Workshops
• Civil Rights
• Inside the Vaults
• The National Archives YouTube channel

Images, video, and audio pinned to Google Maps and layered onto Street View to witness the past in the present

• March on Washington tour
• 1968 Democratic National Convention tour
• More tours
• Mathew Brady Civil War
• Women at Work
• More collections
• The National Archives on Historypin

Courses, collections, videos, podcasts, and primary sources, available as free downloads through iTunes U

• United States Constitution course
• The Chinese Exclusion Act course
• John F. Kennedy: The Peace Corps course
• Lyndon B. Johnson: The Space Age course

Model the process of primary source analysis using these worksheets. Then direct students to work in groups and vocalize the process. With practice, they will internalize the procedure and go through the steps on their own.

• New Document Analysis Worksheets