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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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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A Chronology of U.S. Historical Document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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Columbia University Bartleby Library
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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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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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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.
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M. Christopher New
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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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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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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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The full text of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.
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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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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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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 Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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The full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England.
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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.
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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.
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MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
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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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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 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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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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In Your Classroom:
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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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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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