Dealing with Digital Overload: Teaching with Primary Sources in an Age of Databases, Digitization, and Abundance

It's all a bit overwhelming, this brave new age of digital primary sources. With a few keystrokes the instructor can access hundreds of databases with millions of records. What is the survey or high school teacher, with a myriad of other time and content demands, to do with the wealth of primary sources so readily available to us? During the roundtable I will offer a few brief suggestions and examples to instructors to help them effectively utilize the growing number of databases to enrich their introductory classes, and offer a high school teacher's perspective on the role of primary sources in the age of text search.