Essential primary sources for U.S. history all in one place! Each of these fully projectable and printable downloads covers one topic in American history, from Beginnings and Colonization through Reconstruction and Industrialization, with:

• 25 digitized primary sources like foundational documents, political cartoons, maps, and more
• An explanation of primary and secondary sources
• 10 student activities with extensions, answer keys, and standards alignments
• 10 mnemonic device graphic organizers

Middle school, high school. Set of five downloads. Reproducible. PDF, 67-84 pages. We recommend Foxit PDF for viewing or editing PDFs.

Suggested Activities

Need some ideas? Use the primary sources in the downloads to introduce a topic, practice DBQs, contextualize current events, or reach students with creative activities where they write or draw their own versions of the documents!