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American Memories
| The U.S. Library of Congress presents over 70 in depth collections of American
History, ranging from African American Perspectives, Votes for Women,
Voices from the Dust Bowl, the Westinghouse Works, Notebooks from the Walt
Whitman Collection, the Spanish American War - and so much more.
This one site can easily keep you occupied for days. |
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American presidents
| Life portraits |
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Crime Library |
Hundreds of in-depth true stories about the most notorious crimes of all
times. |
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Declaration of Independence |
Information and archive pictures of the Declaration of Independence. |
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Famous
Trials
| Great information about famous American trials.
Examples: Salem Witch, Rosenberg, O. J. Simpson. |
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Grolier's on Presidents
| Lot's of info about American presidents. |
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Hall of Forgotten Presidents
| In honor of the three least known presidents |
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Hall of the
Historic Archives | Excellent background information on
many historic documents. Includes pictures. |
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Hyper History
| Online - Over 1,800 files covering 3,000 years. Combination of graphics, lifelines, timelines and maps. |
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Jerry Capeci's Gangland |
Real stuff about organized crime. |
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Making of America
| A "thematically-related
digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction". This effort includes thousands
of books and articles that are scanned and indexed. To see the
original artwork included with magazine articles from that timeframe is incredible. |
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National First Ladies Library
| Exhaustive biography of more than 40,000 books, articles, letters, manuscripts. |
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National Park Service Links to the Past
| Not only the history of the national parks, but archaeology sites,
registered historic places, civil war information, biographies, virtual
museums. The depth of interesting material is staggering. Of
course not all historic places have their entire history noted, but those that do are incredible. |
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Pathfinders Presidents
| Photo exhibit of presidents |
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SocialStudies.org |
An informational service for social studies. |
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Trivia quiz
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Whitehouse Page on Presidents
| Art, Portraits, inaugural addresses, biographies, first ladies, first families. |
There are more flags - included
animated flags, than anywhere else.