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Ad*Access
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The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. [40]
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As students are studying different decades during the 20th century, they might be asked to desktop publish a magazine for those years including articles, photographs, and creative writing. To add color or atmosphere to the publication, students might download and include ads from the decade from this database.
In media literacy studies, students might be asked to identify the approaches that various ads are using to promote their ideas.
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Duke University
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Emily Dickinson
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Paul E. Black
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Humanities Text Initiative: American Verse Project
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The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded. [125]
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University of Michigan
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Isaac Assimov
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[147]
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Edward Seiler
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John Keats
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[151]
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Portico: The British Library
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Leo Tolstoy
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[156]
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Tolstoy Library
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Samuel Beckett
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[162]
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George Washington University
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U.S. Bill of Rights
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The text of the U.S. Bill of Rights
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William Wordsworth
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[171]
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Project Bartleby Archive
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Words & Deeds in American History -- Chronological Listing
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A chronological listing of the approximately ninety primary source documents spanning from the 15th to the mid-20th century...all part of the "Words and Deeds in American History" project at the Library of Congress [112]
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The Library of Congress
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19th Century Advertising
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During the 19th century, one of the most consistently popular American
periodicals was Harper's Weekly, an illustrated paper whose circulation was
well in excess of over 100,000 on a regular basis. This fine site highlights
some of the many creative and inventive advertisements that were prominently
displayed in the periodical during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The
project was the brainchild of John Adler, a longtime history buff, who came
across a complete set of the periodical for the period from 1857 to 1916. On
the site visitors can browse through advertisements for appliances,
insurance, foreign travel, farm land, and various medicinal potions. The
selection of ads includes one for "pain paint," which begins with a brief
doggerel that includes a mention of the impeachment of President Andrew
Johnson in 1868. [460]
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HarpWeek
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A Chronology of U.S. Historical Document
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This well designed site includes the complete text of many of our nations founding documents, including foundations such as the Magna Carta and the Iroquois Constitution.
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University of Oklahoma Law Center
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A Civil War Soldier
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A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment documents the Civil War
experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital
images, this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs,
and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. The letters feature
details of the regiment's movements, accounts of military engagements,
and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers and their views of the
war. Forty-six of the letters are also made available in transcription. [477]
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Library of Congress
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Aesop's Fables
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online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables(Some with Real Audio), indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls. [119]
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John R. Long
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Aesop's Fables Online Collection
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Nearly as old as the Olympics, bigger than Dinosaur, older than the
Titanic, more complex than Pokemon and more of them than Beanie Babies are
Aesop's Fables," explains Web site creator John R. Long, who offers free
access to over 655 Fables with more on the way. The Fables are listed by
title and by moral of the story -- many include illustrations and over a
dozen are available as audio narrations. The site also provides links to
lesson plans, including those submitted by site visitors. Unsure where to
start in this extensive online library? Long provides an excellent subset 86
Fables "selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding. [411]
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John R. Long
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American Folklore: Famous American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50 States.
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This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. So grab a cup of coffee or a soda, pull up a comfy chair, and stay awhile. [329]
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This web site makes a wonderful source for story telling. One student centered way of using these stories might be to have students illustrate them, build presentation slides, or even create a video of the stories.
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Freelance Author, Sandra E. Schlosser
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American Journeys
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With over 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration,
the American Journeys Digital Library and Learning Center is the result of a
collaboration between the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by
private donors. Much of the work was done at the Wisconsin Historical
Society in Madison, Wisconsin, and visitors with an interest in digital
projects and their creation and management will want to review the section
that details how the website was built. Visitors with a limited amount of
time will want to peruse the highlights section, which offers a number of
noteworthy historical accounts, including the first encounter of Europeans
with the Grand Canyon and the arrival of Captain James Cook in Hawaii. The
resource section for educators is well-developed and includes suggestions on
integrating documents into lesson plans, information on interpreting
documents, and addressing sensitive content. As might be expected, the
complete contents of the digital library may be searched in any number of
ways, including by topic, author name, document type, and by keyword or full
text. [451]
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Wisconsin Historical Society
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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The power of television in determining the successful candidate for
president of the United States over the past fifty years has been immense --
and something that every candidate is aware of, for better or for worse.
This engaging online exhibit from the American Museum of the Moving
Candidate offers television commercials for each presidential candidate from
the years 1952 to 2000, along with an analysis of each major party, their
advertising campaigns, and a map showing the results of each election. There
are some real gems here including the advertisements from the fractious
campaign of 1968, the powerful uses of various shock issues in the campaign
of 1988, and Harry Belafonte speaking on behalf of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
The site is rounded out by a selection of helpful educational materials,
including a teacher's guide and a complete program guide to the presidential
campaign television advertisements. [495]
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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American Notes: Travel in America, 1750 - 1920
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While Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America may remain one of the
most important and compelling commentaries on the American condition, the
American Memory project at the Library of Congress has compiled this
wonderful collection of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign
visitors from the period of 1750 to 1920 for the convenience of the Web-
browsing public. [452]
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In Your Classroom:
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Ask students to read some of the historic letters about travel in the U.S. Then ask them to write letters pretending to be from another country, describing their travels through your local area.
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Library of Congress
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American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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"Rationalize rhetoric, and it speaks to your mind. Personify her and she speaks to your soul." I wide range of sources of rhetoric, including christian rhetoric, movie speeches, rhetoric of 9-11, speach bank, top 100 speeches, etc. [481]
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Michael Eldenmuller
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American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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A wonderful web site with links to important speeches, both real and ficticious. They include christian rhetoric, movie speeches, news, rhetoric of 9-11, top 100 speeches, and more. [541]
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American Rhetoric
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Ancient India
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The Ancient India Web site from the British Museum is designed especially
for middle schoolers and teachers, but all ages will enjoy exploring. There
are six chapters: Buddha, Geography, Hinduism, Indus Valley, Time, and
Writing; each with divisions entitled Story, Explore, and Challenge. Story
in the Buddha chapter is the life of the Buddha; Explore under Hinduism
features trading card-sized images of 16 Hindu gods and short descriptions;
and the Geography Challenge is to plan a pilgrimage to see holy sites of the
Buddha's life, traveling on foot. Other fun sections include the Writing
section challenge, where students decipher ancient Indian writing, and the
interactive timelines in the Time chapter. Throughout the site, clicking
linked words in the text pops open a glossary with definitions of difficult
terms. [461]
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The British Museum
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Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
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Founded 900 years ago, the city of Timbuktu (located in what is now the
country of Mali) was a center of major commercial importance and a place
where many Islamic scholars received their education. This exhibit,
developed by the Library of Congress (with the use of manuscripts from the
Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of
Boujbeha) explores some of the many important literary traditions and
scholarship developed during this period of scholarly effervescence. Here
visitors can browse over 30 primary documents, including texts designed to
train scholars in the field of astronomy and the nature of Islamic
mysticism. The exhibit is rounded out by several maps, such as a map from
1743 that shows the region in and around Timbuktu. [439]
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The first thing that I thought of as I viewed the digitized texts was the currency of the issues (i.e. commerce). When exploring these issues in classes, these documents might be printed for students as an example of the history and heritage of these ideas and that they WERE NOT just European concepts.
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Library of Congress
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Ancient World Mapping Center
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Classics Unveiled was developed by Neil Jenkins, Sumair Mirza and Jason Tang
as a way to teach the web-browsing public about the various aspects of the
ancient world, ranging from the massive world of Greek and Roman mythology,
Roman history, Roman culture, and the Latin language and its pervasive
influence on English. The site is divided into four primary areas, and
visitors may opt to browse through any of them and their accompanying
features, which include primary extended essays and informative games and
quizzes. In Rome Exposed for example, users will learn about Roman
residences, entertainment, attire, cuisine, and several other aspects of
Roman culture and mores. In MythNET visitors can learn about the twelve
Olympian gods, read about the Trojan War, and explore genealogical charts
that trace the various relationships between the pantheon of Rome and
Greece. [443]
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http://www.classicsunveiled.com
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Anne Frank - Anne Frank NL
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 The Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam was the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War Two. Excellent Holocaust and World War Two resource. [482]
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Anne Frank Stichting
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Anne Frank: The Writer
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In honor of its 10th anniversary year, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is
displaying Anne Frank's original writings, accompanied by this online
exhibition. The Web site uses a combination of audio and animation, so that
visitors experience Anne's essays and diary entries read aloud, accompanied
by images and automatically turning pages. The complete text of all the
writings exhibited is available for those who prefer a more traditional
reading. There is also a series of video interviews with Anne's relative,
Buddy Elias, and the curators of the exhibition. [431]
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
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BBC World Service Audio
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Real Audio of BBC News, Science, Religion, Business, Features, The Arts, Sports, Education, and Youth programs.
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BBC World Service
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Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
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Buried in Westminster Abbey (under a plain slab adorned with the words, Rare
Ben Jonson), Ben Jonson was one of England's most renowned playwrights
during the 17th century. A contemporary of Shakespeare, Jonson was born in
1572, educated at the Westminster School, and as a young man joined the
theatrical company of Philip Henslowe in London. Shortly after joining the
company, Jonson's second play, Every Man in His Humour, was performed in
1598 at the Globe, with a cast that included William Shakespeare. Ever the
quick wit and satirist, Jonson's reputation was firmly secured by the
comedies he wrote between 1605 and 1614, which included The Alchemist and
Bartholomew Fair. This site, provided by the Luminarium, contains most of
Jonsons' plays and lyric poetry, a brief biography (with hypertext links),
additional Web resources, and a number of critical essays on Jonson's body
of work. Visitors will want to make sure to read Jonson's homage to William
Shakespeare, titled "To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William
Shakespeare." [445]
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Anniina Jokinen
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Biographical Dictionary
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This is a database of biographical information on famous and infamous people. It includes an alphabetical listing and a searchable index. Brought to us by the TV program, Biography.
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A&E Television Networks
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Biographical Dictionary
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This is a database of biographical information on famous and infamous people. It includes an alphabetical listing and a searchable index. Brought to us by the TV program, Biography.
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A&E Television Networks
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers\
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. [532]
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Because of the enormity of the collection, the digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm is broken into more than one phase. Phase I, which can presently be found on this site, concerns the period from 1841-1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching. [404]
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Brooklyn Public Library
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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Home
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members, not only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all true science, literature and art -- all come within the scope of the Catholic Encyclopedia. [522]
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Charles Dickens
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Brown University Scholarly Technology Group
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Children's Literature Web Guide
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This website holds a wealth of information to support young students in their exploration of literature. This site has been popular for a very long time.
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University of Calgary
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Children's Literature Web Guide
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This website holds a wealth of information to support young students in their exploration of literature. This site has been popular for a very long time.
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University of Calgary
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Civics Online - Envisioning the Democratic Community
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Civics Online is a collaborative, online project providing a rich array of primary sources, professional development tools, and interactive activities to facilitate the teaching of civics. [484]
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Civics Online
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Colonial and Revolutionary America
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This site features a wealth of primary resources on colonial and revolutionary America. An example is digitized images of issues of 'Poor Richard's Almanac.'
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Timothy J. Shannon
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Cool Quotes - Coolest quotations on the Web, random quote, Quote of the Day, famous quotes, funny quotes, movie quotes, inspirational quotes, friendship quotes, motivational quotes, love quotes
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CoolQuotes is striving to be the best place on the internet to get cool quotes. Please feel free to browse through our quotes database and discussion forums. Send a quote to a friend or relative by email. Suggest a favorite quote of your own, to be added to our database. Try our random quote generator. Enjoy our Quote of the Day feature. Additionally, for your convenience, we have provided your favorite quote categories to you on our front page. They are: famous quotes, funny quotes, movie quotes, inspirational quotes, friendship quotes, motivational quotes and love quotes. [490]
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CoolQuotes.com
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Cornell Library Historical Monographs
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Beginning in 1990, the Cornell Library initiated an ambitious early attempt
to create digital surrogates for materials that were rapidly deteriorating
and becoming brittle. Utilizing prototype equipment developed in tandem with
Xerox, the materials were scanned and placed online. Currently, the
materials available include 441 entire monographs, totaling 159,961 pages.
The search engine located on the site allows visitors to search the holding
by author, title, and text. Additionally, visitors can browse the collection
by author or title. The monographs include Shelley's "An address to the
Irish people," Comte's "Positive Philosophy," selected writings of Richard
Wagner, and Sir Richard Burton's "Personal Narrative of a pilgrimage to el
Medinah and Meccah." The Web site concludes with a help section that
contains information about searching and browsing this interesting
collection of online monographs. [412]
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Cornell Library
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Dance Instruction Manuals: Ca. 1490 - 1920
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presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another. [266]
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These publications provide a unique view of life before TV. Ask you students, as they browse through the manuals, why they think this subject was of such interest to people in past centuries?
In PE, use the manuals to teach some folk dancing.
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The Library of Congress
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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University of Virginia in Charlottesville
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Digital Book Index
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Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records.
It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial
eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing
organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight
in most major disciplinesLiterature, History, Science and the History of
Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area
Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An
extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines,
Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on
Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to surpass anywhere. Library
subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well.
More than 25,000 titles from public archivesall indexed hereare available
free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more
contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek,
Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carr, are available from many leading
publishers." [449]
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Digital Book Index
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Diplomacy Monitor
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More and more countries around the world are releasing official policy
documents, communiques, and other crucial communications via the Web, along
with more traditional means. The Diplomacy Monitor at the St. Thomas
University School of Law is a fine way to keep track of various
communications, as it allows users to globally track diplomatic and
international official statements, press briefings through their readily
accessible monitoring system located at their site. Utilizing their own
proprietary technology, the staff at the Diplomacy Monitor review annotate
and categorize these documents several times throughout the United Nations
business day. The site includes a brief introduction to using the Monitor,
along with the option of full-text searching of every document archived
within the database. For additional discussion of how the Internet affects
global diplomacy, the site also contains some interesting working papers and
reports, such as The Rise of Netpolitik-How the Internet is Changing
International Politics and Diplomacy. [446]
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St. Thomas University School of Law
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Doris Lessing
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Jan Hanford
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Doucette Index
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The Doucette Index provides access to books and websites that contain useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and young adults, and the creators of those books. The books indexed are those held by the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, but many of these books will also be available in other libraries. [279]
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Faculty of Education, University of Calgary
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Christoffer Nilsson
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Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works of the Master of the Macabre
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Much of Poe's work was published multiple times. Often changes to the title, or text itself, accompanied these various publishings. On a number of these pages you will find more than one version of a work. [352]
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Gibson Grafx
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Edmund Spenser
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University of Oregan
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EDSITEment - All Websites
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“Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning,” Digital History includes a variety of primary and secondary documents, maps, images, audio archives of speeches and lectures by historians, a database of more than 1,500 annotated links, and a rich interactive timeline. [485]
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University of Houston
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Einstein Archives Online
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This impressive digital archive
features the writings, scholarship, and thoughts of Albert Einstein, one of
the 20th century's greatest scientists. The site allows visitors to view and
browse 3,000 high-quality digitized images of Einstein's writings, ranging
from his travel diaries (many of which are in German) to his published and
unpublished scholarly manuscripts. [423]
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The travel diaries might be used by German classes as a source of information to translate. Notes might be used to enhance the study of contributions by scientists in the area of Physics.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem & California Institute of Technology
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Electronic Text Center -- English
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This rich website features works of modern, middle, and old English. In the moder English section, works can be browsed by African American, Native American, American Civil War, Best Sellers, and special collections. [121]
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- French
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An extensive selection of French literature. [122]
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- German
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An extensive selection of German literature.
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University of Virginia Library
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Electronic Text Center -- Latin
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An extensive selection of German literature. [124]
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University of Virginia Library
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Brown University Scholarly Technology Group
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
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The best encyclopedia ever written was published over 90 years ago! And now you can find right here on the web! This 1911 encyclopedia is filled with historical information that is still relevant today. [391]
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1911encylopedia.com
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EuroNews
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Created in 1992 in Lyons, France, EuroNews is a European Broadcasting Union initiative that was started by a group of European public broadcasters interested in providing European viewers with a diverse set of perspectives
of regional and international news. The site will be of interest to anyone with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of important topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European Union, cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts of the EU. Visitors can also view a weekly schedule for EuroNews, or elect to view the latest news update from EuroNews. As might be expected, the site may be viewed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. [500]
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EuroNews.Net
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Expressions & Sayings
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Have you ever wondered where some of the expressions and sayings used in everyday language come from? In fact, many of the words and phrases common in daily English originate from a wide variety of sources such as mythology, folklore, literature, religion, science, history, superstition, old customs and practices, the language and culture of other countries, and many more. Here are some common expressions and sayings you may well have used yourself, along with explanations of their meanings and where they originated. [417]
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Scorpio Tales
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Frederick Douglass (American Memory, Library of Congress)
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The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the
papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who
escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an
outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
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Library of Congress
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Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
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Thirty-four years later, thanks to a $3.5 million gift from Stephen M. Silberstein, the University of California Berkeley Library and the Bancroft Library began an ambitious program to document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement - a legacy that can still be traced in political activism and educational reform throughout the country. [298]
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Students might read through some of the texts and view selected video clips. Then they might create posters supporting or condeming the protests. Each student or team should back up their poster with facts.
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Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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[144]
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Quotes, the life, works, and essays from and about Geoffrey Chaucer. [293]
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Anniina Jokinen
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. [402]
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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[145]
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Gifts of Speech: Women
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Speeches made by influential contemporary women around the world. [542]
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SweatBriar College
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Herman Melville
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[146]
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Historical Text Archives
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This website features text archives and other resources on more obscure fasites of U.S. history, including: Yorktown, pre-1700 documents, Georgia before Oglethorpe, and northwest coast indian history [66]
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Mississippi State University
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Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826 - 1919
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For illustrations of puckish glee, turn to this digital collection from the
University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries, which includes selections from
twelve works by and about William Shakespeare (and a few other British
playwrights), originally published in places ranging from Philadelphia to
Leipzig, dating 1826 - 1919. The books chosen for this digital collection
are heavily illustrated versions of Shakespeare. While some text is
available, such as picture captions, title pages, bits of dialogue, and
synopses of plays -- all of which is fully searchable -- the collection is
really designed to enable users to flip to the pictures. For example, a 5
volume set, The spirit of the plays of Shakspeaire [sic], drawn and engraved
by Frank Howard, 1833, consists of a series plates for each play, with some
explanatory text. The dramatic souvenir: Being literary and graphical
illustrations of Shakespeare and other celebrated English dramatists,
published by Charles Tilt, also 1833, has about two pages per play: a
synopsis, and several pictures. [447]
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Libraries -- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Inaugural Addresses
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This is a hypertext verson of the Inaugural Addresses. You just click on the president's name and get the full text of his speeches.
[176]
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Columbia University Bartleby Library
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Indepth Analysis of Macbeth
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This site is essentially an online cliff notes for MacBeth. It has one added feature that uniquely takes advantage of the Internet. The authors created a Shakespeare dictionary and hypertexted the dictionary to the play. Cool! [253]
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In Your Classroom:
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My classic assignment for literature is to have students,pretending to be selected characters of a play or book, pose questions through a message board to other characters that explore their motivations. Then they return, read a question posed by a classmate, and do some research to answer the question speculating on the motivations. This site would be an ideal resource for such an activity.
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ThinkQuest
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Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
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This is an extremely comprehensive list of topics related to the U.S. Civil War with numerous links to other Net resources. [224]
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This site can be an valuable site for conducting research projects or WebQuests. The information is highly organized and rich with information links.
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U.S. Civil War Center
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Index on George Washington
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Includes texts for many of his speeches and writings. [206]
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In Your Classroom:
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Ask your high school students to read some of the writings and speeches of George Washington and other revolution era U.S. leaders and then ask them to hold a debate, pressing their leader's positions in the students' own words.
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The American Revolution - an .HTML project
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Internet Library of Early Journals
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ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The Journals include: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. [70]
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Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
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Internet Library of Early Journals
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ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The Journals include: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. [126]
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Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford
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Irish Folk Songs
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An extensive list of lyrics to traditional Irish folk songs. [72]
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John-William DeClaris
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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In 1905 American writer, Jack London, had purchased 129 acres of ranch land in the Sonoma valley, and over time he continued to add adjoining acreage. While writing remained his vocation, farming became his avocation. As an enthusiast of scientific farming, he set out to make his "Beauty Ranch" the most modern in the west. [349]
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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Jane Austen
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[150]
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JewishEncyclopedia.com
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This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. [521]
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JewishEncyclopedia.com
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Kurt Vonnegut
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[154]
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Kevin A. Boon
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Langston Hughes
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[155]
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Michael Borshuk
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Lewis Carroll Home Page
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Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll began his writing career
writing lines of verse and is best remembered today as the author of
_Jabberwocky_ and, of course, _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. For
students and persons looking for any number of links about Carroll's life,
his works, and teaching aids and materials to be used in conjunction with
his writings, this Web site should provide ample resources. [410]
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Lewis Carroll Society of North America
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LibriVox
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. [544]
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LibriVox
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Loyalist, British Songs & Poetry of the American Revolution"
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The full text of songs and poems of the British and loyalists. An interesting and potentially valuable find.
[76]
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M. Christopher New
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Luciferous Logolepsy
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Developed by Alan M. Taylor, a Web site developer based out of Seattle,
Washington, the Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure
English words. The name of the project is (not surprisingly) based on two
obscure words: Luciferous, which means illuminating and logolepsy, which
means an obsession with words. As Taylor himself notes, "For the purposes of
this project, words are included that may stretch any basic definitions.
Particular attention has been paid to archaic words, as they tend to be more
evocative." Visitors may elect to browse through this collection
alphabetically, or through the search engine provided online. Web crawlers
with an unquenchable desire to know the meanings of such words as quantulum,
quartan, raceme, or wanion, will not be disappointed by this fun site. [415]
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Alan M. Taylor
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Lyrics Search Engine
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Type in a word, and this tool searches for songs that have that word in the title. It includes both famous and more obscure music. [262]
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In Your Classroom:
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If you are teaching a new concept, you might go to this search tool and look for word lyrics that have some relation to the concept.
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Astra Labs
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Manifesto of the Communist Party
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The full text of the Communist Manifesto, By Friedrich Engels, translated in 1888. [177]
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manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA
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 There are a number of places to get books online, but this recent addition
to that cadre of websites is definitely worth a look. The staff members at
Manybooks.net have adapted the e-texts created by the Project Gutenberg DVD
and placed them online in a host of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as
Palm document files. Visitors can begin by browsing by author, title,
category, or language. [528]
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Manybooks.Net
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Medieval Writing
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Developed and maintained by Dr. Dianne Tillotson, this site is a good
location to begin learning about handwriting and manuscript production in
the Middle Ages. Needless to say, the art and science of deciphering these
manuscripts is terribly time-consuming and complicated. The site is divided
into approximately thirteen sections, and first-time visitors would do well
to read the "What is paleography?" essay first, in order to learn about this
elaborate decoding process. The other sections of the site describe (through
words, illustrations, and photographs) the life of a scribe during the
Middle Ages, the tools utilized to produce the manuscripts, and the various
forms that manuscripts took during this historical era. One rather
delightful aspect of the site are the paleography exercises where visitors
can try their hand at deciphering various passages from medieval
manuscripts, including Dante's Inferno and the Book of Hours. [Flash] [435]
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Dr. Dianne Tillotson
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Michael Crichton
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[160]
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Texas A & M University
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Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
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Though it can truly be said that during the nineteenth and most of the
twentieth centuries that "the sun never set on the British Empire," the
story of those who came to Britain from various far-flung corners of the
Commonwealth is sometimes overlooked. This lovely archive of documents,
images, and first-hand narratives celebrates and explores why people came to Britain, along with looking at the current experiences of these various
groups today. Gathered from over 30 local, national, and regional museums and libraries around Britain, the site primarily looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities.
Moving Here hopes this is just the beginning or a programme which might look at additional content and communities in time [413]
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The National Archives
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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
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Welcome to the latest edition of Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. Newcomers should read the Introduction for an explanation of the way things are arranged. Old timers should read What's News each visit for highlights and new features. [345]
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Terry A. Gray
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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The full text of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.
[127]
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Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
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A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index. If you need help with something, feel free to drop us a line. [478]
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Read Print, Inc
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PiNet Library -- The Landmark Project
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This site contains samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry texxts, read by various scholars and in different styles. It is designed to help students of the classical languages to acquaint themselves with the sound of Greek and Latin and to practice their own reading skills. [383]
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Princeton University
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Presidential Inaugural Addresses
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This single file holds all of the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. [178]
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Private Art
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A collection of World War II Letters to and from the home front. These pages require Java. [90]
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Enviromedia. Inc.
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg was the first to begin digitizing the great works of civilization. It began work in 1971 to enter texts into computers and then eventually to make them available via FTP, the Gopher, and now the Web. [128]
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Michael Hart
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Rutgers Oral History Archives of WWII
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The fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War has sparked a growing realization among both scholars and the public alike that a generation is in danger of disappearing from historical memory. Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and then went on to confront the twin threats of German fascism and Japanese militarism are now in their seventies and eighties. If we do not act immediately and record their oral memoirs and stories, we will forever prevent their experiences from becoming part of the historical record of this vital era. [315]
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In Your Classroom:
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Use various interviews to spark inspire interest in 1940s history for high school and middle school students. Ask students to read interviews and then tell a human story about WWII.
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Rutgers University
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Samuel Johnson
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[163]
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Jack Lynch
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[164]
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University of Virginia Library
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Shakespeare Navigator
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 This web site has basic information on a few of the major works of Shakespear. It is, in a sense, a clicknotes for the Bard [251]
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Philip Weller
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The full text of Shakespeare's sonnets with commentaries and pictures. [254]
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In Your Classroom:
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Since large numbers of the sonnets are printed to single web pages, students (and teachers) can use their browsers find function to find sonnets with specific keywords and phrases.
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Oxquarry Books Ltd
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Shanties & Sea Songs
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A listing of many sea songs sung by sailers as their worked their jobs in rhythm on the square-rigged sailing ships. [281]
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In Your Classroom:
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It might be interesting to teach students some of these songs and have them sing them while they play a sport in PE class.
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Andrew Draskoy
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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[165]
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Michael Sherman
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The Avalon Project
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This is yet another rich source of full text historical documents. The archive is arranged chronilogically so that you can click 18th Century and receive a list of those documents. [94]
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Yale Law School
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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
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The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. [321]
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Yale Law School
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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This site provides access to all of the published works of the Bard. The plays are hyperlinked to a Shakespeare dictionary where unfamiliar words can be clicked for their meaning. [129]
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M.I.T.
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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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The full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England.
[179]
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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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The full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England.
[180]
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The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
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Widely understood to be one of the single most important inventions in human
history, the development of movable type by Johann Gutenberg in the 15th
century made it possible to produce a large number of copies of a single
work in a relatively short period of time. Utilizing their own copy (one of
48 remaining around the world) of Gutenberg's Bible, the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has created
this informative site about both this amazing book and the printing process
used to create this work. [414]
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In Your Classroom:
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Most visitors will want to start by viewing
selected passages from this remarkable book available here, among them
excerpts from Genesis and the 23rd Psalm. One particularly engaging feature
is the "Anatomy of a Page" section where visitors can learn about the
different parts of the pages in the Gutenberg Bible, including the
abbreviations made by the scribes, the illuminations, and rubrics added by
the scribes indicating the conclusion of a given book within the Bible.
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Hart Ransom Humanities Research Center
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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Ernest Hemingway was the most influential writer of the last century. Explore our site to learn more about his adventurous life and his groundbreaking literary work. [407]
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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The House at 7 Middagh
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In its heyday, the house at 7 Middagh was home to an illustrious collection of literary and artistic figures that included the novelist Carson McCullers and the poet W. H. Auden. [529]
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The New york Times Company
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The Internet Classics Archive
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Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
[100]
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MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
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The Internet Classics Archive
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Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. [130]
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M.I.T. Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
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The Internet Poetry Archive
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The works of contemporary poets (Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa) in both text and Real Audio. [131]
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Paul Jones
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The Jazz Age Page
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An archive of text, images, and sounds of the Jazz Age, the 1920s. [236]
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In Your Classroom:
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This site has many resources for constructing reports and presentations about the Roaring Twenties. Students might also use the audio files as part of their F2F presentations or multimedia products.
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R. Richard Savill
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The Medici Archive Project
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The Medici family is widely considered one of the most famous and respected
patrons of arts during the Renaissance, and their legacy perseveres in the
numerous works of art, music, and sculpture that were produced as a result
of their beneficence. The archive of the Medici Grand Dukes contains almost
three million letters, and offers "the most complete record of any princely
regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe." Currently, the Medici Archive
Project is developing this site to place many of these letters online, along
with a strong interest in the history of costumes and Jewish history during
the Renaissance. [397]
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In Your Classroom:
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This site would make a great dedicated resources for advanced Western Civilization independent studies. Teachers might also use the art work in class presentations.
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The Medici Archive Project
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The Nineteenth Century in Print
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This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. [267]
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For history classes, students might be asked to research 19th century life through these periodicals. You might also ask them to role play as writers of a previous time, and use some of the images from the periodics to dress student written publications.
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The Library of Congress
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The Nuclear Files
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This page comprises links to primary source documents including treaties, governances, and personal correspondences. There is also a teachers resources page available. [228]
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In Your Classroom:
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One of the most interesting aspects of this site is the personal correspondences. For instance, Einstein's letter to FDR in 1939 where he warns the president about scientific developments in Germany.
It might be beneficial during a study of World War II or of the 20th Century to ask students to read some of these letters to gain insites into the players of the development of nuclear weapons and then have them carry out a contemporary debate in character with the authors.
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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The On-Line Books Page
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A database of full text books on line that is searchable. You can also browse by author, title, and subject.
[132]
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John Mark Ockerbloom
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library
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This site contains a collection of some of the most important literary works of classical and medieval civilization. [133]
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Berkeley Digital Library
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The Papers of George Washington
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This website holds a significant representation of the 'Papers of George Washington' which was established in 1969. They include letters written to Washington as well as letter and documents written by him. A new feature of this site is the search engine that allow use to keyword search the papers of our first president.
[101]
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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A timeline of the Pulitzer Prize winners going back to 1917. [237]
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In Your Classroom:
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You might have students create a database of the prizes, especially in journalism, and categorize them. Then the students might look for trends or patterns in issues that were awarded during different decades.
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I,
1918-1919
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The Stars and Stripes was a newspaper written by troops (and for the troops)
serving in the American Expeditionary Force of the United States Army during
the United States' involvement in World War I. The newspaper's existence
was endorsed by official order of General John J. Pershing, who wanted the
publication to strengthen the moral of the troops and to promote unity
within the American forces. The paper ran from February 1918 to June 1919,
and by the time it ceased publication, it had a readership of over 500,000.
As part of the American Memory series of online collections, the Library of
Congress has created this Web site containing a complete digitized and
searchable run of the Stars and Stripes for the general Web-browsing public.
Users may elect to browse the issues by date, or to search the entire
collection of papers. Additionally, the site features an in-depth look at
the paper, including a detailed discussion of the noted editorial staff that
ran the paper, along with a complete roster of the paper's employees. [448]
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Library of Congress
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The Supreme Court Historical Society
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Celebrating more than 25 years of service to the Supreme Court, the legal profession, historians, and the public, the Supreme Court Historical Society was incorporated in 1974 for the purpose of expanding public awareness of the history and heritage of the Supreme Court of the United States. [398]
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Supreme Court Historical Society
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The Vincent Voice Library
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This site includes WAV and MPEG2 files of many U.S. Presidents going back to Benjamin Harrison. Talks include:
- William McKinley in one of his front porch speeches
- William H. Taft talks about having a sense of humor
Also included are Florence Nightingale and Will Rogers. [102]
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Michigan State University
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Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
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This is perhaps one of the richest websites on the Internet, especially from the perspective of U.S. citizens. Thomas features a wide variety of information and data about the Congress that is both up-to-date and historic. [103]
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The Library of Congress
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Thomas Pynchon
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[166]
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San Narciso Community College
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Tighsolas
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This is an extraordinary web site, in the making, that includes information relics of a Canadian-born, Canadian schooled man (Norman Nicholson), hemlock bark dealer, turkey salesman, Town Public Works Clerk, Inspector for the Transcontinental Railway and The Quebec Streams Commission, (I have all the documentation) was a work-a-day sort, devoted husband to the spirited feminist-minded Margaret McLeod, (also a Lewis descendant) doting father to three feisty and ambitious daughters Edith, Marion, Flora and one lost soul of a son, Herb.
An excellent source for making students real historians. [534]
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Dorothy Nixon
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U.S. Constitution
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The full text of the U.S. Constitution.
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Vanderbilt University News Archive
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The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. [323]
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Vanderbilt University
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Vintage Radio Script Library Page
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An archive of old time radio program scripts, including scripts from:
- Abbot & Costello
- Buck Rogers
- Doc Savage
- Flash Gordon
- Green Hornet
- Lone Ranger
- The March of Time
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Generic Radio Workshop
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Voices from the Dust Bowl
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Voices in casual talk and song in the migrant camps of California, 1940 to 1941. Includes MP3 files and other formats. [264]
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Between World War I and World War II, teaching about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression can be a challenge. Including voices from the time might serve to excite your students about this defining time.
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The Library of Congress
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Voices of Civil Rights :: Home
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AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, which serves as both a living memorial to those who were a part of the civil rights experience and a tribute to the quest for equality that continues today. Begin by learning about the power of a story.
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AARP
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Voices of the Civil Rights Era
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This site includes sound files (.wav) of major speeches of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. Because the files are .wav files, you can download and archive them for later use and for use away from the Internet. [111]
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Webcorp
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Vote for Women
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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. [268]
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In Your Classroom:
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Ask students to read through some of the texts and then extrapolate some of the justifications that we had for refusing women the right to vote. Then ask them to compare those beliefs with some beliefs that are apparent in the world today.
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The Library of Congress
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W.B. Yeats
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Ian Cahill
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Welcome to The Mark Twain House
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Step back to the Gilded Age during guided tours of the 19-room, Tiffany-decorated mansion where Mark Twain raised his family and worked from 1874 to 1891. During this incredibly productive period, Twain created such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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The Mark Twain House
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Who2
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This is a rich web site with basic biographies and lots of links to famous people. There is an alphabetical interface and a search tool for finding the person you are teaching about. [208]
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Assign each student in your class a famous person in history. Then allow them to research their famous person through Who2 or one of the other biography sites. Then ask each student to write a letter, or e-mail to their famous person. Have the e-mails sent to other students in the class or in another class where those students answer them in character.
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Who2
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William Blake
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Richard Record & Gail Gastfield
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William Faulkner
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University of Mississippi
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William S. Borroughs
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Wired for Books
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For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. [518]
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Ohio University Telecommunications Center
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Words Without Borders
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Hosted at Bard College, with a dispersed staff composed of distinguished
writers, translators, and publishing professionals, Words Without Borders
(WWB) seeks to address the current "dangerous imbalance" in publishing
(about 50% of all books in translation worldwide are translated from
English, but only about 6% are translated into English). Browse the Web site
by issue -- July/August, September, and October 2003 are available -- or
select literature geographically. Readers will find both fiction and non-
fiction in the form of essays, poems, and excerpts from longer works. There
are also book reviews, brief biographical information about authors, and a
link to sign up to receive the journal via email. [441]
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Bard College
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World News Map
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This is an intriguing resource that builds a map of the world with icons that indicate news stories related to headlines, politics, war, crime, accidents, business, sports and coming events. You click the geographically placed icon, and a CNN report appears. You can also click a continent and see only its map and there is also a news timeline. [535]
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Mikhail Poyzner
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