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  • African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Black history and culture.
  • African-American Odyssey: From the Library of Congress, this browsable exhibition features 240 excepts from rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, and musical scores devoted to African-American studies.
  • American and British History Resources on the Internet: A directory of several hundred history-related Internet resources.
  • American Slave Narratives: Ten annotated narratives taken from the Works Progress Administration interviews conducted during the 1930s.
  • American Treasures-Library of Congress: An ongoing exhibition of American treasures, this site is divided into sections on memory, reason, and imagination.
  • Archiving Early America: Featuring newspapers, maps, documents and writing from 18th century America.
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: This digitization project of the Library of Congress offers a documentary record of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first 20 Congresses of the United States (1774-1829), as well as the Journals of Congress and the Debates of Congress.
  • Cold War International History Project: A project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, this searchable site is devoted to information about the Cold War.
  • Colorado Historic Photo Archive: A project of the Denver Public Library, this site contains more than 50,000 historic photographs.
  • Colorado State Archives: This page includes a timeline of Colorado's history, biographical sketches of famous Coloradans and a timeline of Colorado history.
  • Core Documents of U.S. Democracy: Twenty-four documents chosen by the U.S. government for online access, including the Bill of Rights, Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register and Declaration of Independence.
  • Current History: Contains article abstracts and full text of selected articles from current and previous issues of Current History Journal.
  • Documenting the American South: Beginnings to 1920: A searchable site from the University of North Carolina containing digital texts of first-person narratives of both slaves and slave owners, as well as documents pertinent to the Reconstruction and the role of the church in the Southern Black community.
  • Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement: A project of the Special Collections Library at Duke University, this searchable site provides access to documents covering various aspects of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • Douglass: Archives of American Public Address: An electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.
  • Early America Review: "A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America."
  • Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920: From the Library of Congress American Memory program, this site provides multiformat documentation of the history and cultural foundations of the conservation movement in the US.
  • Historical United States Census Data Browser: Providing access to United States census data from 1790 to 1970.
  • The History Net: Produced by the National Historical Society, this searchable site provides numerous articles on American and World History and includes interviews and personality profiles.
  • The History Place: Providing access to speeches and articles on U.S. and World History.
  • "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations: From the Library of Congress, this site consists of approximately four hundred items from each of sixty-two inaugurations, including addresses, from George Washington in 1789 to William Jefferson Clinton in 1997, and will include items relating to the sixty-third inauguration of 2001
  • Index of Native American Resources on the Web: This sites indexes Internet resources on Native American culture, history, language, education, health, indigenous knowledge and art.
  • Links to the Past: A searchable site maintained by the National Parks Service with numerous resources pertaining to American history, culture, archaeology, and historical preservation.
  • Making of America: A collaborative project of Cornell University and University of Michigan, this searchable site provides access to primary source material on the development of the U.S. infrastructure. This first phase of this project documents American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
  • The Martin King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University: Providing access to Dr. King's papers, speeches and sermons.
  • Museum of African Slavery: A virtual museum of sources on the realities and practices of slavery in the Americas.
  • National Archives and Records Administration : A searchable site from the independent federal agency responsible for preserving documents relevant to U.S. history and overseeing the management of all federal records.
  • United States Holocaust Museum: Includes a searchable archive of library holdings and photographs, as well as transcripts of recent programs and presentations.
  • The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975: Includes history, access to primary source documents and links to other Vietnam War related sites.
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