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"Anti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860"

uses a poster decrying the disruptive influence of railroads on local culture to launch a discussion on local differences & their effect on American politics. Explanatory text, materials for teachers, & links to further resources accompany the documents. (NARA)

"Become A Historical Detective"

gets the reader to search the Library of Congress website & decide whether Billy the Kid was really killed by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. (LOC)

"The Big Picture"

is a weekly jigsaw puzzle from the Library of Congress's photo collection. Once the photo is assembled, the reader then searches the Library's website to identify it. (LOC)

"The Blue Angels Homepage"

describes the popular Navy air demonstration shows that are seen by 10-15 million enthusiasts each year in cities throughout the U.S. The site shows photos & descriptions of the Blue Angels aircraft & its staff. (NAVY)

"Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982"

presents documentation of a northern Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch & its cowboys, known as buckaroos. This collection presents 41 motion pictures & 28 sound recordings of the ranch. In addition there are 2,400 still photographs portraying the people, sites, & traditions on other ranches & in the larger community. (LOC)

"By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s"

presents 2 baseball collections, "Baseball, the Color Line, & Jackie Robinson, 1860s-1960s" & "Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s-1920s." All told, there are about 60 images: photos, baseball cards, schedules, & various ephemera. (LOC)

"By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents & First Ladies, 1789-Present"

is an online illustrated reference aid showing the likeness of each President & most of the First Ladies. (LOC)

"By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920"

is an online illustrated reference aid that includes photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, & an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons commenting on the movement -- all evoking the visible & visual way in which the debate over women's suffrage was carried out. (LOC)

"Cultural Resource Management"

is an online magazine of the National Park Service. The site presents every issue, available in pdf format, from its beginnings as a quarterly 1978 to monthly plus supplements today. The articles are searchable by such categories as archaeology, technology, & ethnography. (NPS)

"Facts on Saving & Investing Campaign -- New for 1999!"

offers free downloadable software & brochures for making sound investments for retirement. The campaign itself is sponsored by a wide variety of commercial, nonprofit, & government organizations to increase financial literacy among Americans. (SEC)

"The Federalist Papers"

gives the complete text of the famous series of articles in support of adopting the U.S. Constitution, either as one file or as 83 separate files for each paper. (LOC)

"George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, & First in the Hearts of His Countrymen"

consists of 3 lessons examining George Washington's leadership in the French & Indian War, at the Federal Convention, & as chief executive. They are based on primary source documents from the George Washington Papers, 1741-1799. The lessons are intended for secondary students, grades 8-12. The documents from Washington's Letterbooks include focus questions that may be used in Socratic seminars & in cooperative learning groups. (LOC)

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"George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799"

describes the Library's collection of 65,000 documents, which makes up 95% of all extant Washington documents. In its online presentation, the George Washington Papers collection provides approximately 147,000 images. (LOC)

"Images of the American Revolution"

is a collection of 8 paintings & facsimile documents of the war with Great Britain, together with explanatory text & materials for teachers. (NARA)

"The Lewis & Clark Expedition"

presents 13 facsimiles of documents & photographs pertaining to the famous trip of Meriwether Lewis & William Clark during 1804-6 to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Explanatory text, materials for teachers, & links to further resources accompany the documents. (NARA)

"Microcap Stock: A Guide for Investors"

is a fact sheet (with many links for further information) about stocks in companies with low or "micro" capitalization. (SEC)

"Peace Corps Kids World"

gives a grade-school level view of the agency, what it does, its history & what it's like to be a member. (PC)

"Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West"

gives a facsimile of the handwritten petition of the suffragist, editor, & temperance leader, but who was, to many of her contemporaries, most associated with the so-called Bloomer costume. Bloomers, man-like trousers underneath a shorter-than-fashionable skirt, fit what was known as "The Move Toward Rational Dress." Explanatory text, materials for teachers, & links to further resources accompany the documents. (NARA)

"Pioneering Women in American Memory"

features photographs of women throughout American history who have forged ahead to make a better life for themselves, their families, & their society. These women include pioneers who journeyed across the country to settle western territories, as well as women who struggled for recognition as equals in politics, in the workforce, & in their communities. (LOC)

"Port of Entry: the American Journey of Immigration"

is a game in which the viewer will assume the role of historical detective, searching for clues about photographs & eyewitness accounts of immigrant life in America. (LOC)

"Railroad Maps of North America"

include progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants & rights-of-way, & route guides published by commercial firms. (LOC)

"Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture"

offers 27 enlargeable photos, letters, & manuscripts by or dealing with the founder of psychoanalysis. The site tells about the exhibition, which opened at the Library of Congress, but which is moving to New York, Vienna, & Los Angeles. (LOC)

"The Sioux Treaty of 1868"

gives a facsimile of the Treaty & related documents, including a photograph of the Indian leader, Spotted Tail. In the treaty, signed at Fort Laramie & other military posts in Sioux country, the U.S. recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation & set it aside for exclusive use by the Sioux. Explanatory text, teacher materials, & links to other resources accompany the documents. (NARA)

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"Tally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote"

uses a facsimile of the vote tally of a Presidential election, in which the winning candidate, John Quincy Adams, received fewer popular votes than the runner-up, Andrew Jackson, to spark a discussion of the complex system of election rules in our Constitution. There is text of several printed pages, materials for teachers, & links to further resources. (NARA)

"Tips for Online Investing: What You Need to Know about Trading in Fast Moving Markets"

is a fact sheet giving advice on making stock market transactions over the Internet, especially in stocks whose prices change rapidly. (SEC)

"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo"

presents facsimiles of documents pertaining to the treaty, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The treaty was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces. Explanatory text, materials for teachers, & links to further resources accompany the documents. (NARA)

"United States v. Thomas Cooper: A Violation of the Sedition Law"

presents facsimiles of 8 printed & hand-written documents surrounding the case of Thomas Cooper, a lawyer & newspaper editor in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, who was indicted, prosecuted, & convicted of violating the Sedition Act after he published a broadside in 1799 that was sharply critical of President John Adams. The case is famous in the annals of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. (NARA)

"We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary"

provides web links to 41 historical places that were important during the civil rights movement. (NPS)

"...and the earth did not swallow him (an adaptation of the Tomas Rivera novel), KPS"

provides background material for the American Playhouse film adaptation of a novel about a Chicano migrant worker. The site contains several photographs from the movie & links to various Chicano & Latino sites. (NEH)

"A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs & Freedom, WETA"

describes the PBShow on the civil rights leader & founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. (NEH)

"Africans in America, WGBH"

is an online companion to the 4-part PBS series, covering the period 1450 to 1865. There are historical narratives, resource banks of images, documents, stories, biographies, commentaries, & a teacher's guide. (NEH)

"Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World"

is an online companion to the PBS film documentary. The site has dozens of images & texts dealing with the industrialist, his contemporary millionaires, & his times. (NEH)

"California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900"

consists of the full texts & illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history, from the Gold Rush to the turn of the century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans & the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, & urban development; the often-turbulent growth of communities & cities; & its emergence as both a state & a place of uniquely American dreams. (LOC)

"Consumer's Resource Handbook"

is a 144-page booklet that provides advice & consumer tips on such topics as cars, shopping from home, avoiding consumer & investment fraud, home improvement & financing, & credit cards. Also included is the Consumer Assistance Directory with thousands of names, addresses, phone numbers, & web site & e-mail addresses for national consumer organizations, better business bureaus, corporations, trade associations, state & local consumer protection offices, state agencies, military consumer offices, & Federal agencies. (GSA)

"Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothandeque nationale de France"

was an exhibition at the Library of Congress of paintings, manuscripts, furniture, & other objects from Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle. (LOC)

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"Divided Highways: The Interstates & the Transformation of American Life, WETA"

offers background material for teachers & others in theform of text & photographs for the PBS program. (NEH)

"Documents from the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789"

describes the Library of Congress's collection of 500 Broadsides for the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, & early printed versions of the United States Constitution & the Declaration of Independence. Most Broadsides are 1 page in length, others range from 1 to 28 pages. (LOC)

"EarthWorks: Digital Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley"

covers the archeology of one of the largest concentrations of monumental earthen architecture in the world. Today, only a few isolated fragments of the mounds, enclosures, & roadways remain. The project uses digital technologies to re-envision these original ancient landscapes. (NEH)

"The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez & the Farmworkers Struggle, ITVS"

gives the background to the making of the PBS film & includes interviews with Chavez & others. (NEH)

"Frank Lloyd Wright, WETA"

offers several pictures of 10 buildings of the famous American architect, discussion of his life & work, & films clips of Wright being interviewed. (NEH)

"Get the Facts: For Students & Teachers"

promotes financial literacy by offering online booklets, quizzes, & a financial calculator. The site provides links to several federal agency kids pages & to similar pages at commercial sites. (SEC)

"The Great War (World War I), KCET"

features interviews with 19 historians who were consulted in the making of the 8-part PBS series. Maps, bibliographies, online links, & a timeline are also at the site. (NEH)

"The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association"

is a multi-disciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, & culture. It consists of over 23,000 articles on people, places ,events, historical themes, institutions, & other topics. (NEH)

"I'll Make Me a World, Blackside Inc, & WNET"

celebrates the achievements of 20th-century African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, film makers, musicians, & other artists. (NEH)

"Journeys to Alaska"

is a 20-activity electronic field trip to Alaska. It covers geology, ecosystems, physics, history, & social studies. (ED, NPS)

"LIBERTY! The American Revolution, KTCA"

is an online companion to the 6-part PBS series. It begins in the aftermath of the French & Indian War & ends with the creation of the Constitution. Chronologies, short bibliographies, images, & online links are offered for many aspects of the 2 1/2 decade chapter of American history. (NEH)

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"A Midwife's Tale, The American Experience"

is a companion to the PBS documentary constructed around the diary kept by a Maine woman kept from 1785 to 1812. Besides interviews with contemporary historians, images from the diaries, & background material, the site provides a complete transcript of the broadcast itself. (NEH)

"A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America, PBS"

is an online companion to the PBS documentary. It contains photographs & text about both the making of the documentary & about the disease itself. (NEH)

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

portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota & Wisconsin from the 17th to the early 20th century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic & antiquarian texts, & colonial archival documents. This collection depicts the land & its resources, the experience of Natives, pioneers & missionaries, soldiers & reformers, & the growth of communities & cultures. (LOC)

"R. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud, WNET"

is a spin-off from the PBS series about the architect, designer, engineer, poet, philosopher, author & global iconoclast, best known for the geodesic dome. Beside numerous images, texts, & links, the site has multi-megabyte films. (NEH)

"Richard Wright: Black Boy, ITVS"

is an online companion to the PBS film documentary of the noted black author. It offers photographs, a teacher's guide, a bibliography, & links to other sites. (NEH)

"The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures"

gives 53 multi-megabyte motion pictures related to the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a role. These films were made by the Edison Manufacturing Company & the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company & consist of actualities filmed in the U.S., Cuba, & the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, & parades, as well as reenactments of battles & other war-time events. (LOC)

"This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics"

is a book that introduces the theory of plate tectonics. It includes understanding plate motions, historical perspective, & more. (USGS)

"TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, The American Experience"

is an online companion to the 4-hour PBS documentary. It combines photographs, newspapers, motion pictures, & sound recordings; family diaries & letters; & interviews with scholars, historians, & Roosevelt family members. (NEH)

"The U.S.-Mexican War, KERA"

is an online companion to the PBS documentary. It contains several short chapters of texts & images pertaining to the war, its background, & consequences, as well as references, links, a timeline, & a monitored bulletin board for debate & discussion among the public. This site is available in both English & Spanish. (NEH)

"The West, WETA"

is an online companion to the 8-part PBS documentary. The site is divided into sections dealing with an overall tour, events in the West, places, people, & archives. (NEH)

"The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863"

lists several online programs that will give visitors new insights into the war, the soldiers, their lives, & their surroundings at Gettysburg. Visitors can also tour Gettysburg National Park. (NPS)

"The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures"

looks at the complex political & cultural differences that existed between European Americans & American Indians during the early 19th century & how these conflicting views ultimately affected the Creeks. (NPS,TwHP)

"Birthplace of John F. Kennedy: Home of the Boy Who Would Be President"

takes students to JFK's birthplace & to the neighborhood where he grew up. It was here that JFK's parents began instilling the high standards & ambition that would make the Kennedys one of America's most famous families. Students can investigate the family's traditions, values, & interests to consider how family culture & community shapes one's character & personality. (NPS,TwHP)

"The Building of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal"

helps students realize the role canals played in western expansion & in the evolution of transportation by focusing on the construction of the Chesapeake/Ohio Canal. Students can read about George Washington's influence on the C&O Canal & those who worked on or lived near the canal. (NPS,TwHP)

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"Central Vermont: Explore History in the Heart of the Green Mountains"

looks at Central Vermont's history. It examines 43 historic places that recall past eras when many small villages grew slowly until the coming of the railroad, which resulted in a period of growth for Vermont in the last half of the 19th century. (NPS)

"Decatur House: A Home of the Rich & Powerful"

examines the life of Stephen Decatur, a naval hero who died as a result of a duel in 1820, & considers the role the house he built played in the political & social scene of the nation's capital up to the 20th century. (NPS,TwHP)

"Glen Echo Park: Center for Education & Recreation"

traces the evolution of this Maryland site from a chapter of the Chautauqua movement, to an amusement park, to a national park. (NPS,TwHP)

"Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush"

focuses on the pivotal role that Seattle & Pioneer Square played as the chief outfitting & transportation center during the Klondike Gold Rush. It also looks at difficulties stampeders encountered on their journey from Seattle to the Klondike. (NPS,TwHP)

"Historic Charleston's Religious & Community Buildings"

explores Charleston's heritage by examining 42 historic places. More than 300 years of history are covered, including the Walled City of the British colony, the growth of the shipping industry & surrounding plantations, the city's role in the events leading up to the Civil War, the resurgence of the community during the late 19th century, & the establishment of one of the most complete & intact historic districts in the country. (NPS)

"Public Archeology in the United States: A Timeline"

allows visitors to journey through time & see the development of public archeology in the U.S. Along this timeline, which extends from 1784 to the current decade, visitors can see how public archeology has changed & discover the key events that shaped public archeology in this country. (NPS)

"San Antonio Missions: Spanish Influence in Texas"

explores a group of 18th-century missions in modern San Antonio to learn about the Spanish influence on native peoples & the patterns of Texas culture. Students can learn about the psychological & cultural factors that led the Coahuiltecan Indians to accept mission life & how irrigation systems, such as acequias, assisted in the development of Texas farmland & other arid areas. (NPS,TwHP)

"Skagway: Gateway to the Klondike"

examines the impact of the Klondike Gold Rush on the development of Skagway, Alaska. This lesson allows students to trace the development of Skagway from a homestead, to a gold rush boomtown, to a permanent city. (NPS,TwHP)

"Washington DC: A Guide to the Historic Neighborhoods & Monuments of Our Nation's Capital"

presents 96 historic places that bringthat 200-year history of our nation's capital to life. Visitors learn not only about famous national landmarks & monuments of Washington D.C. -- such as the White House, the Capitol Building, & the Mall -- but also about historic neighborhoods & local landmarks that make the city unique. (NPS)

"Woodrow Wilson: Prophet of Peace"

examines President Wilson's struggle & ultimate failure to reach the ideal of achieving lasting world peace through the League of Nations. Through activities, students can learn about the conflict between Wilson's ideals of world peace & the Senate's policy of isolationism. (NPS,TwHP)

"Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World"

reveals how immigrant cigar makers adapted to life in the U.S. in the late 19th & early 20th century while maintaining their ethnic identity. This lesson also describes Cuban immigrant efforts to free Cuba from Spain andtheir involvement in the Spanish-American War of 1898. (NPS,TwHP)

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