Primary Sources: Educator Resources

These primary resources include speeches, executive orders, legislative acts and debates, government fact-finding and personal and collective memorialization. The resources will be routinely updated to offer an ever-expanding portrait of 9/11. Given the inherent sensitivities, certain documents may contain content that some may find offensive, but the information is included to provide as complete a record as possible.

This link contains guides which provides helpful information on reading historical primary sources.

The online tool for teaching with documents for the National Archives.

Primary Source information from Library of Congress for teachers.

This links to a good starting point for utilizing the National Archives website for Primary Sources.

Engaging students with primary sources

Check out these sites for excellent primary source material.