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Recommended Websites
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each …
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Online archival collection of three African-American women: Elizabeth Johnson Harris, Vilet Lester and Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson. Includes letters about slavery, poems, vignettes, and memoirs.
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Provides links to documents useful for the study of American history. Includes treaties, maps, charters, illustrations, and government publications.
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Guide to American History research at the University of Kansas Libraries
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Provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada and Mexico. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers).
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American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, …
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Large collection of materials related to the study of the American Presidency. Including complete Public Papers of the Presidents from Herbert Hoover (1929) through first year of George W. Bush's first term (2001). Also includes large archive of sound and video clips of American presidents.
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Contains a searchable speech bank with audio and movie clips as well as materials for scholars and teaching aids.
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The University of Virginia's American Studies Programs's website of diverse resources, which includes access to primary sources and research projects.
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A National Nonpartisan Center to Research, Reflect, and Report on American Government. The Scripps Library's collection is a specialized one focused on American politics and history with special attention paid to the American Presidency.
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Course guide for AMS/SOC 536
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The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC allows you to perform a keyword, digitized image and location search. ARC's advanced functions also allow you to search by organization, person, or topic.
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The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons …
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Comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all things Canadian.
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A fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. Included are oral interviews with civil rights leaders, manuscripts and photographs relating to the Civil Rights Movement.
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The database provides access to primary sources from the institutions listed as publishers documenting the peoples who have immigrated to this area along the Columbia River Basin. Focus is placed on recent immigrants to the area, including those of African, Asian, European or Latin American heritage.
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This database contains some 5,500 items of American campaign memorabilia from 1789-1960 that comprise the Susan H. Douglas Collection at Cornell. Inlcuded are such items as ballots, buttons, broadsides, cartoons, maps and charts, pamphlets, posters, prints, ribbons, sheet music, songbooks, textiles, and wearing apparel.
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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 8,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to …
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Catalog of formally published online Canadian books and journals.
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This database includes over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S. Materials digitized are from the Rare Book, MAnuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
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Search by region, country, or topic. Includes foreign government and international web sites and related information, including news and statistics.
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A digitized version of the U.S. Department of State publication 'Foreign Relations of the United States' which is an official record of major U.S. Foreign Policy decisions as have been declassified and edited for publication. This collection is an incomplete run of the series from 1961-1960. Materials from the Truman Administration (1945) up through the Nixon Administration (1972) are available from the official U.S. Department of State FRUS …
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A digitized version of the U.S. Department of State publication 'Foreign Relations of the United States' which is an official record of major U.S. Foreign Policy decisions as have been declassified and edited for publication. Online full-text materials range from the Truman Administration (1945) up through the Nixon Administration (1972). Other FRUS materials are also available from a digital library project at the University of …
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Contains links to the most recent statistical abstracts for the individual states of the United States. All sources contain statistical tables on a variety of subjects for the states as a whole, its component parts, or both.
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The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
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Electronic resources for information on world governments and country profiles. Contains some hard-copy resources.
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This database provides access to photographs taken by Jackson DAvis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, who intended to depict the impovershed conditions of African American schools in the Southeastern United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
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This website aims to "uncover, chronicle, and transmit" the hisotry of North American Jewish women. Included are oral hisotry projects, biographical sketches, and primary sources.
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This subject guide presents resources that will help you research topics on Latino Chicano Studies
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The goal of the "Library of Southern Literature" is to make one hundred of the most important works of Southern literature published before 1920 available world-wide for teaching and research. Currently, this collection includes over eighty titles that were digitized with special funding from the Chancellor and the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated.
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The National Archives and Records Administration(NARA) is an independent U.S. Federal agency that preserves the nation's history by overseeing the management of all Federal records. This website provides extensive information on NARA, how to research their resources, and provides a linkk to "the digital classroom," where primary sources and educational programming tied to educational standards for teaching US history can be found.
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NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies. The National Association of Social Workers Foundation (NASWF) is a charitable organization created to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities through the advancement of social work practice.
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The National Atlas is the electronic verson of the National Atlas of the United States of America, providing a dynamic and interactive atlas. It includes maps about agriculture, the environment, government, history, geology and more.
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This site provides access to more than 1,000 collections from more than 250 Ohio institutions containing primary sources important to the study of Ohio history.
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Find databases, web sites, books, and sources for research related to political science
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This University of Michigan Documents Center site is a comprehensive portal to statistics, including information on agriculture, business and industry, consumers, cost of living, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, finance and currency, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, transportation, and weather.
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This website provides access to a collection of interviews conducted by Terkel, well known Chicago author and radio personality, in preparation for his books and radio programs.
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Toleration, Abolition, Suffrage, and Civil Rights
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This database provides access to news stories relating to Boston's African American community as aired on WGBH's Ten O'Clock News, from 1974-1991.
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Theory.org.uk: Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory
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Home page of the U.S. Census Bureau. This site provides state population profiles based on the latest census figures, census maps, and information about the Census Bureau.
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A directory of links to literary criticism and analysis on the Internet. In addition to good sources about literary criticism, this site contains an extensive set of links to primary critical texts.
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The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy …
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