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American Memory

This resource is geared toward students and teachers. It provides links to sets of selected primary sources on a variety of topics in United States History. You can browse by topic, time periods, place and by what the collections contain (maps, prin ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

"This collection presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries. They document ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sundayschool/

Conservation and Environmental Maps

"The historic and more recent maps contained in this category show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational an ...

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cnsvhome.html

Panoramic Maps Collection: 1847-1929

"Panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective." ...

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

Library of Congress

"The Library of Congress is using the World Wide Web (WWW) to present information about and materials from its collections over the Internet." It's also possible to view Internet exhibits that cover American history, get legislative information, acc ...

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

African-American Mosaic

Resource guide to the Library of Congress's African-American Collection. "Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including boo ...

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America (1935-1955)

"This Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated c ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/

Meeting of Frontiers

"Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting ...

http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945

"The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910

"Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival d ...

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/umhome.html

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