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Memory: Historical Collections from the National Digital Library http://memory.loc.gov/
This Library of Congress web site is a gateway to primary digitized resources relating to the history and culture of the U.S. There are over 7 million digitized items from 100 historical collections. The collection includes: photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures.H-NET http://www.h net.org/ H-NET is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet. The edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The site offers mailing lists for students and professionals in the field of history to foster communication between people with common interests.The Avalon Project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access to primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. They add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. They provide as many internal links within a document as are necessary to facilitate study and navigation. The Project contains many controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for balance and because in some cases they are referred to by another document.
The History Matters Archive contains tens of thousands of pages of scanned reports, transcripts, and other documents, dozens of hours of audio, and a variety of photographic materials. It includes both old and new from reports published in the 1960s to formerly-secret records declassified as recently as the year 2000.Core Documents of US Democracy http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html These documents are collected from various federal web sites including the Library of Congress, and the National Archives. Many pages include not only the full text of these important documents, but facsimile copies so users may experience the feel of the original material. Among the materials included in the collection are:
History Links allows you to browse a database of more than 350 carefully reviewed and annotated United States and Western history links by historical subject area and textbook chapter. Spanning history from ancient Mesopotamia to the Culture Wars of the 1990s, the database contains material as diverse as sites on historical archeology, primary documents collections, photograph and illustration galleries, map collections, secondary sources, and audio downloads. Teachers can assign these links as the basis for homework assignments and research projects, or students may use them as a point of departure for their own explorations. |
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Compiled by Prof. Jocelyn Berger-Barrera email the professor |