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The West
is an online companion to the 8-part PBS documentary. The site is divided into sections dealing with an overall tour, events in the West, places, people, and archives... (WETA, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World
is an online companion to film documentary on a man who was fond of saying "The man who dies rich, dies disgraced." Carnegie amassed a fortune, then gave it away. Millions of dollars... (WGBH, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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American Masters: Edward Curtis
offers an essay, timeline, and other information about this photographer who took more than 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over 80 American Indian tribal... (WNET, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Grant-Kohrs Ranch
commemorates America's frontier cattle era. The ranch—located north of Yellowstone in Deer Lodge, Montana—is among the best surviving examples of an economic strategy based on the... (National Park Service) |
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Our Documents
features 100 milestone documents in U.S. history. Each week, the website highlights 3 documents. Speeches, treaties, Supreme Court cases, patent designs, and Constitutional... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
looks at the century of segregation following the Civil War (1863-1954). "Jim Crow," a name taken from a popular 19th-century minstrel song, came to personify government-sanctioned... (WNET, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals
presents digitized books and periodicals published in the U.S. during the 19th century. The collection includes 23 popular magazines and more than 1,500 books that illuminate themes... (Library of Congress) |
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American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
provides 253 narratives describing travels in the colonies and U.S. The collection includes works by authors not widely known as well as by Matthew Arnold, James Fenimore Cooper... (Library of Congress) |
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The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer... (Library of Congress) |
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Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno, Virginia City
tells the stories of three cities established after the Comstock Lode discovery in 1859 brought a "reverse migration" from California. The stories, told by this travel itinerary of 57... (National Register of Historic Places, supported by National Park Service) |
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From Slavery to Civil Rights
is a timeline of African-American history. Photos, broadsides, maps, and other items are organized around time periods: slavery, abolition, antebellum, Civil War, reconstruction... (Library of Congress) |
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Remembering Jim Crow
is a companion to a radio documentary, and examines the system that, for much of the 20th century, barred many African Americans from their rights as U.S. citizens. Read personal... (American RadioWorks, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916
provides 26 films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire. The earthquake struck on April 18, 1906, along the San Andreas Fault, damaging most central... (Library of Congress) |
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Quake: 1906 San Francisco Quake
tells why the April 18, 1906, earthquake along the San Andreas Fault was "one of the most significant earthquakes of all time." See photos, eyewitness accounts, the 1906 seismogram... (U.S. Geological Survey) |
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The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
presents 8,000 photos, paintings, letters, diary excerpts, pamphlets, and speeches that portray the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California during that time period... (Library of Congress) |
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From Slavery to Freedom, 1824-1909
presents nearly 400 pamphlets written by African-Americans and others about slavery, emancipation, African colonization, Reconstruction, and related topics. Materials range from... (Library of Congress) |
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America
is a companion website for a film that examines the case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s. The site includes a history of... (NOVA, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
provides a selection of more than 500 letters, lectures, photos, articles, and sound recordings related to the birth of the recording industry. Hear auctioneers, animal calls, musical... (Library of Congress) |
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The Penniman House: A Whaling Story
focuses on one of the most successful whaling captains in New England. Edward Penniman was 11 in 1842 when he signed on as cook on a schooner. Years later, as a captain, he set sail... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
features the 1897 petition against the annexation of Hawaii, political cartoons on progressivism and the 1912 election, woman suffrage and the 19th Amendment, the Zimmermann telegram... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
celebrates the centennial of flight with a thorough presentation of Wilbur and Orville Wright's biography, their technical achievements and the cultural impact of their breakthrough in... (National Air and Space Museum, supported by Smithsonian Institution) |
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Reporting America at War
explores the role of journalists in covering America's wars. The website, companion to a PBS documentary, offers a teachers guide with lessons on press censorship, message control... (Insignia Films and WETA, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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History Matters
is a gateway to web resources and threaded discussions for high school and college teachers of U.S. history survey courses. It presents first-person narratives about the experiences of... (George Mason University, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Race and Place: An African American Community the Jim Crow South
recreates the contours of the African American community in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the start of this century. Narratives provide historical analysis as well as archival... (University of Virginia, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
presents 3,000 pieces of sheet music drawn from a collection at Duke University. The selection covers a variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel, protest, plantation, and... (Library of Congress) |
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First Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
documents the culture of the 19th century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, ex-slave narratives, and travel accounts of... (Library of Congress) |
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American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
consists of 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States taken between 1891 and 1936. These photographs show a wide range of... (Library of Congress) |
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Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
presents nearly 8,000 publicity brochures, ads, and talent circulars for more than 4,500 lecturers, teachers, preachers, politicians, actors, singers, magicians and others who... (Library of Congress) |
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American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
features more than 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest: the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These... (Library of Congress) |
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The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers, 1862-1939
contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting the invention of the telephone, his involvement in the first telephone... (Library of Congress) |
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American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920
consists of 59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century. Speakers include Warren G. Harding, James Cox, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt... (Library of Congress) |
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Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
consists of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral... (Library of Congress) |
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Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
features 104 short films which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in 1919. In addition to scenes of Roosevelt, these films include... (Library of Congress) |
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Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, 1820-1910
portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the 17th to the early 20th century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories... (Library of Congress) |
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
is a multimedia anthology illustrating the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and... (Library of Congress) |
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
introduces students to primary documents related to women and social movements in the U.S. between 1830 and 1930, including letters and newspapers articles on the role of African... (Binghamton University (NY), supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Samuel Gompers Papers Project
is a documentary editing project that collects, annotates, and makes available primary sources of American labor history. It includes microfilm, photocopied material, and annotation... (University of Maryland Department of History, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991
presents 4000 images of American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits... (Library of Congress) |
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The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
offers documents and images for learning about Bell's patent for the telephone, Edison's patent for the electric lamp, Glidden's patent application for barbed wire, the Homestead Act... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Inventing Entertainment: The Edison Companies
features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this... (Library of Congress) |
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The Learning Page
helps teachers use the Library of Congress's "American Memory" website to teach U.S. history and culture. It includes suggestions for using photos, objects, life histories and other... (Library of Congress) |
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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letter
illustrates the story of settlement on the Great Plains. Family letters of one homesteader express personal insight into the joy, despair, and determination in his struggle to... (Library of Congress) |
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Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War
examines the 1898 war with Spain, which steered the U.S. toward becoming a world power. Learn about Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine. Find a... (South Carolina ETV, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle
tells the story of a man, a union, and a time when millions of Americans joined a just cause. The Fight in the Fields is a portrait of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic leader of the... (Independent Television Service, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
presents a review of African-American history and culture as seen through the practice of pamphleteering. The site includes sermons on racial pride and essays on segregation, voting... (Library of Congress) |
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History of the American West, 1860-1920
features 30,000 photos of Colorado towns and landscapes that document the role of mining in the history of Colorado and the West. Photos of Native Americans from more than 40 tribes... (Library of Congress) |
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1897 Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii
recounts the struggle for control of Hawaii between native
Hawaiians and American business interests in the late 1800s. This 1897 petition and a lobbying effort by native Hawaiians... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Travel and Westward Expansion
is a collection of 50 books written in the 19th century that offer travelers' impressions of various parts of the U.S. or western territories... (Library of Congress) |
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Panoramic Photography
presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Nineteenth-Century America in Art and Literature
presents documents paired with 7 paintings, including Mahantango Valley Farm, Jolly Flatboatmen, and White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas. These... (National Gallery of Art) |
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The Old Mormon Fort: Birthplace of Las Vegas, Nevada
recalls the individuals and events leading to the creation of Las Vegas. In 1855, Brigham Young sent 30 men to farm, convert Indians, and build a settlement along a trail to the... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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An American Success Story: The Pope House of Raleigh, NC
tells the story of Manassa Pope, the first black man to receive a medical license in North Carolina (1886). After practicing medicine and helping establish a drug store and insurance... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Journeys West
helps students examine the motivations of people who traveled west during the 1800s, as well as the conditions they encountered, the conflicts between settlers and native people, and... (Library of Congress) |
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Picturing Modern America
helps students learn about modern America (1880-1920) by analyzing primary sources. Topics include immigration, the city, women and suffrage, industrialization, the West, children's... (Education Development Center, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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The Amana Colonies
looks at the historic utopian society established in the 1850s along the Iowa River by German-speaking settlers from a religious group known as the Community of True Inspiration. The... (National Park Service) |
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site: Birthplace of the Modern Presidency
examines the career of our 26th President—the conditions under which he became a vice presidential candidate, the assassination of President McKinley, the home where TR was hastily... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Thurmond: A Town Born from Coal Mines and Railroads
recounts the story of the New River Gorge area in West Virginia. It is mountainous and remained sparsely populated and largely inaccessible until 1873, when the Chesapeake and Ohio... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Monument to the Gilded Age
describes this Hyde Park estate that includes a palatial Beaux-Arts mansion, stunning views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and over 600 acres of landscaped property. The... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890
presents letters, business papers, photos, maps, ship logbooks, and narratives that can help students understand the story of American's travel by sea to settle California, Alaska... (Library of Congress) |
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Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889
commemorates the most devastating flood in the U.S. in the 19th century. On the wet afternoon of 05/31, 1889, the inhabitants Johnston, Pennsylvania, heard a low rumble that grew to a... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
is an online companion to a 4-hour PBS documentary. It features photographs, newspapers, motion pictures, and sound recordings; family diaries and letters; and interviews with... (WGBH, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire
presents the drawing and description that helped Joseph Glidden, a farmer from De Kalb, Illinois, win a patent for barbed wire in 1874. Glidden's design remains today the most... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright
tells the story of how Andrew Carnegie donated over $40 million from his fortune made in the railroad and steel industries to build more than 1,600 libraries across America. Photos... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Hardin County, Iowa
presents 26 historic places—barns, civic buildings, churches, railroad depots, schools, and libraries—that depict the history of this county, known as the "Heart of the Heartland."... (National Park Service) |
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Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights, 1860-1960
presents 34 images and descriptions of early baseball, famous players, and more. It includes a print of Union soldiers playing baseball in a Confederate prisoner of war camp, a photo... (Library of Congress) |
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Santa Clara County, California's Historic Silicon Valley
features 28 historic places that illustrate how this fertile valley blossomed from small agricultural towns linked by railroad into a center of technological innovation. Located south... (National Park Service) |
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Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the violent 1886 confrontation between Chicago police and labor... (Library of Congress) |
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Creating Hypertext Dialogues Drawn from Narrative History Collections
invites students to use documents from "California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900," to create hyperscripts depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and... (Library of Congress) |
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Coffeyville, Kansas: The Town That Stopped the Dalton Gang
recounts the bank robbery attempt that made Coffeyville famous in 1892. Bob Dalton's gang had been robbing trains, stealing horses, and looting gambling houses in the Midwest. But... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912
offers teaching activities, four political cartoons, and a narrative about reforms proposed by three major presidential candidates in 1912: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading... (Library of Congress) |
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American History and Art from New England
invites students to explore the history of New England and Massachusetts during three turns of the centuries: 1680-1720 (Colonial); 1780-1820 (Federal); and 1880-1920 (Progressive and... (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Nature's Fury
invites students to read personal accounts of natural disasters in the U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1990s -- the great Chicago fire (1871), the Johnstown Flood (1889), the San... (Library of Congress) |
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The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
provides 28 films that include footage of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, President McKinley at his second inauguration, and McKinley's funeral. Two brief essays recall the... (Library of Congress) |
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Chronicling America
lets us search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published since 1690... (Library of Congress) |
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United We Stand
provides primary source documents that students use to examine the working conditions of U.S. laborers at the turn of the century and to develop their own answers to a question: "Was... (Library of Congress) |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online
is an effort to locate and make available all of surviving manuscripts and printed texts from this 52-year friendship based on a mutual commitment to establish "perfect political... (Rutgers University, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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After Reconstruction: Studying the Problems of African-Americans in the South
encourages students to identify problems facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction. Students then work in small groups to identify documents describing a particular... (Library of Congress) |
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Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
shows 900 photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod houses... (Library of Congress) |
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The Sioux Treaty of 1868
examines Native American sovereignty and the Constitutional power granted to the president and the Senate to make treaties with foreign nations. The site presents the Treaty and... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder
displays records from the 1880 and 1990 census schedules showing that Laura Ingalls, Almanzo Wilder, and families of the popular Little House on the Prairie series were not mere... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
contains approximately 2,800 photographs, plans, maps, and models of American buildings and landscapes built during this period. The collection offers views of cities, buildings... (Library of Congress) |
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America at Work, America at Leisure, 1894-1915
features motion pictures that showcase work, school, and leisure activities in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century. The site includes films of the U.S. Postal Service from... (Library of Congress) |
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From Jim Crow to Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African-American Experience, 1897-1953
helps students understand themes of African American life in the first half of the 20th century and explore to what extent the African American experience was "separate but equal."... (Library of Congress) |
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Railroad Maps of North America
offers progress report surveys for individual railroad lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by... (Library of Congress) |
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Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929
is a digitalized collection of this once popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known... (Library of Congress) |
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The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
features films and actualities taped in the U.S., Cuba, and Philippines showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other wartime... (Library of Congress) |
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By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
offers photos of suffrage parades and pickets, cartoons commenting on the movement, and portraits of Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others... (Library of Congress) |
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Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
introduces students to one instance in which immigrants overcame the ramifications of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 through the U.S. judicial system. This lesson correlates to the... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers' Enrollment Case File
encourages students to study a variety of documents to understand the impact of a particular piece of legislation and relates to the powers granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
encourages students to analyze dozens of photographs taken in the early 1900s depicting working conditions for child laborers. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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The Frankish Building: A Reflection of the Success of Ontario, California
helps students gauge the impact of the Chaffey brothers and Charles Frankish on Ontario, California, and compare their efforts with those of similarly important figures in their own... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush
focuses on the pivotal role that Seattle and Pioneer Square played as the chief outfitting and transportation center during the Klondike Gold Rush. It also looks at difficulties... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike
examines the impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska. This lesson allows students to trace the development of Skagway from a homestead, to a gold rush... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California
looks at the contributions of early Asian immigrants to the development of California's economic and agricultural industries. The site also identifies obstacles encountered by Asian... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age, 1831-1929
portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's general collections... (Library of Congress) |
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Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
presents 2,100 early baseball cards. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base, Tris Speaker batting, and pitcher Cy Young formally posing. Other notable... (Library of Congress) |
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California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
consists of texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting California's history from the Gold Rush to the turn of the century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between... (Library of Congress) |
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Small-Town America, 1850-1920
presents 12,000 photographs of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut from the 1850s to the 1910s from a collection at the New York Public Library. The views show natural landscapes as... (Library of Congress) |
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The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
explores the diversity and complexity of African-American culture in Ohio. These manuscripts, texts, and images focus on themes that include slavery, emancipation, abolition, the... (Library of Congress) |
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South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs for the Robert Runyon Collection
presents more than 8,000 of the photographer's items, including negatives, slides, prints, and postcards documenting the history and development of South Texas and the border. His... (Library of Congress) |
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Learning About Immigration through Oral History
is a lesson plan where a team of middle-school students search the Library of Congress website and other resources to learn how to conduct oral history interviews... (Library of Congress) |
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Tracking Down the Real Billy the Kid
is a lesson in which students learn about the role of gunfighters in the settling of the West and analyze interviews with people who knew William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the... (Library of Congress) |
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The Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England
draws on life histories and 19th century periodicals to help students develop their own answers to these questions: Why did French Canadian immigrants settle in New England in such... (Library of Congress) |
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Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
inivites students to explore the forced acculturation of American Indians through government-run boarding schools. In the late 1800s, thousands of Native American children were sent... (Library of Congress) |
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America at the Centennial
uses images and texts from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 to help students learn what the Exposition said about America at that time. Students work as historians using... (Library of Congress) |
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Baseball: As American as Apple Pie
is an annotated collection of Library of Congress resources about America's pastime. It includes early baseball pictures, baseball songs and stories, baseball cards, the first... (Library of Congress) |
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Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard
is a lesson that uses this fort, built in the late 1800s to defend New York Harbor, as the basis for examining issues in U.S. defense policy and military preparedness during that time... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station: Home to Unsung Heroes
describes the lifesaving stations constructed from 1871-1915 along the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Great Lakes to rescue ships in trouble. Little... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Log Cabins in America: The Finnish Experience
tells why the log cabin was popular and important in settling the American frontier. The log cabins, barns, school, and other buildings examined by this website were constructed by... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Ashland, Oregon -- From Stagecoach to Center Stage
highlights 32 historic places in this community located 14 miles north of California at the foot of Mt. Ashland. These places together illustrate the development of Ashland from a... (National Park Service) |
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The Emerald Necklace: Boston's Green Connection
recounts the creation of a series of parks in Boston in the 1880s. At that time, Boston was crammed with buildings and people. It was overcrowded, noisy, and dirty. City officials... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
is a research project on African American life during the Jim Crow era (c. 1890s-1950s). It was a time of undeniable oppression and exploitation of black Americans; however, these 60... (Center for Documentary Studies, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: the Hetch Hetchy Controversy
is a two-part teaching unit about the controversy among conservationists over a proposal to turn part of Yosemite National Park into a dam to furnish water to San Francisco. The first... (Library of Congress) |
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To Market To Market
helps students sharpen their observation and interpretation skills by inviting them to examine images from the turn of the centuries, circa 1900 and circa 2000... (Library of Congress) |
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Photojournalism: A Record of War
explores how and why war has been photographed and affords students an opportunity to see bias within war reporting. In addition to analyzing war photographs, students learn about... (Library of Congress) |
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When Work is Done
is a lesson plan that uses photographs as primary sources and that can help students develop historical analysis skills. After completing the introductory lesson using photographs as... (Library of Congress) |
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The Don Henry Story: The Documents
offers teaching activities using primary documents (tied to academic standards) on a student who became a leader in campus organizations, volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War... (National Archives and Records Administration) |
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Who Really Built America
is a long-term student-driven project that examines primary source materials related to child labor in America from 1880-1920. The unit helps students see the role of labor in our... (Library of Congress) |
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