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American Memory from the Library of Congress
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Presents digital versions of primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Includes manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, music, and maps. |
AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History
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Features documents related to American history from the 15th century to the present. Contains letters, manuscripts, speeches, constitutions, songs, proclamations, treaties, State of the Union addresses, and other documents. Maintained by George Laughead, Jr., manager of the Kansas Heritage Group. |
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
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A gateway to primary documents, images, audio files, and secondary articles concerning U.S. History. Developed by American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. |
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
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Historical materials from Harvard's library, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. The collection includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections. |
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
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A digital archive of thousands of letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches and records from two communities, one Northern and one Southern, during the time of the Civil War. Maintained by the University of Virginia's Virginia Center for Digital History. |
Intute: History
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Gateway to web resources in the field of history. Maintained by Intute, a consortium of British universities. |
Discovering American Women's History Online
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Provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s. Maintained by Ken Middleton, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. |
ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online)
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A portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. Maintained by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. |
In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives
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Provides in-depth indexing of more than 4000 collections of oral history in English from around the world. Updated quarterly. Maintained by Alexander Street Press. |
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
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Searchable digital collection of fiction, poetry, biography and autobiography. Maintained by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. |
Making of America
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Provides access to digitized monographs and journal articles of the nineteenth century in the areas of education, psychology, history, sociology, religion, and science. Maintained by Cornell University Library. |
Women Working, 1800-1930
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Provides access to digitized books, pamphlets, manuscripts and images from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1800-1930. |
Smithsonian Collections Search Center
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Provides access to over 2 million records of the Smithsonian's museum, archives, library and research collections. Maintained by the Smithsonian Institution. |