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The Seward Family Project at the University of Rochester brings together the knowledge and efforts of archivists, history faculty, students, and community members to make a vast collection of documents accessible to a worldwide audience. These videos explain how they did it and provide excellent advice to anyone with documents they want to share.

The Center for the Study of the American Constitution provides a collection of document-based lesson plans on the ratification of the Constitution and the debates that took place over it: Lesson Plans – Center for the Study of the American Constitution – UW–Madison (wisc.edu).

The Massachusetts Historical Society offers lesson plans, activity books, and teaching materials for students at all grade levels, based on their extensive collection of documents and images. Topics covered are Founding Fathers and Their Families, The Era of the American Revolution, Slavery and Antislavery, and The Civil War.

The Papers of George Washington website provides resources for students at all grade levels. Topics are his Life and Times, from schooldays to his death; “Kids,” with materials for grades 3 to 5; Washington in the News; and WebQuest, which teaches students how to access and use the documents on the project’s website.