Primary source documents can be a great way to teach historical events, and the National Archives has created a tool that lets students view primary documents straight from the National Archives on a computer screen. DocsTeach has access to primary source documents, but it also has pre-made activities, and it gives you the ability to create your own activities based around primary source documents.
My favorite one so far lets you compare a draft version and a final version of the Constitution! It is nice to see that even the framers of the Constitution had to use peer-editing!
By the way, the site does seem to work best in Firefox.
Enjoy!
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