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Pbs Learning Media: Library of Congress: Media Gallery | Women's Suffrage
This collection of primary source documents from the Library of Congress supports teaching about women's suffrage in the United States. These primary sources include images, song sheets, articles, statistical documents, maps, political...
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Library of Congress: Classic Books: Waite Hoyt: Babe Ruth as I Knew Him
Scroll through a digital version of the historic book, Babe Ruth as I Knew Him, a brief illustrated book written by Ruth's teammate Waite Hoyt. From the Library of Congress' collection of classic literature.
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Library of Congress: Civil War Faces
A collection of well over 1,000 photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers from the Civil War, as well as some family members. Each photo is accompanied by a caption. Click on the 'Show more' link at the top of the page for additional...
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Loc: Library of Congress Blog
Explore, read, and discuss provocative topics in history, culture, politics, technology, society, and so much more.
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Loc: 100 Years Ago Today
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment...
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Loc: Abraham Lincoln Primary Source Set
The Library of Congress presents Abraham Lincoln's Primary Source Set. Provides numerous examples of primary documents such as handwritten letters to Mary Todd Lincoln, drafts of speeches, and auditory examples of Lincoln's speech at...
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Loc: American Memory: La Follet's Autobiography
Robert La Follette, Progressive Wisconsin legislator, wrote his autobiography, focusing on his work for Progressive issues. Read the autobiography here on this Library of Congress site.
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Loc: American Memory: Taking the Long View, 1851 1991
A large collection of panoramic photographs covering many subjects from the Library of Congress.
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Loc: See and Hear Veterans' Stories
This site is the home of the Library of Congress Veterans' Project. Collected here are stories in multiple formats about specific topics dealing with a soldier's life in WWII, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam War. Pictures and other...
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Loc: All American Memory Collections
This site from the Library of Congress lists and links to many historical collections of nonfiction phamplets and manuscripts. Other searches are available. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity
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Loc: Early Motion Pictures, Sound Records of Edison Companies
The Library of Congress provides information on Thomas Edison's profound contribution to the music industry.
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Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.
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Loc: American Treasures: Washington Records the British Surrender at Yorktown
See a copy of George Washington's diary, written in his own hand, which describes the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. From a collection in the Library of Congress.
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Loc: Thomas Jefferson's Original Letters and Documents
This page from the Library of Congress provides us with links to images of original documents. These includes letters from Thomas Jefferson, holographs, and the transcript of Jefferson's "original Rough Draft" of the Declaration of...
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Loc: Religion and Founding of American Republic: Religion and the Congress of the Confederation
This site from the Library of Congress offers descriptions of multiple events, people and beliefs that helped shape the government and culture of the U.S. Links to views of historical documents and pictures depicting the religious...
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Loc: Farrand's Records: Randolph's Suggestion for Conciliating
Read Randolph's actual words from the Library of Congress in his proposal and reaction to the New Jersey Plan for solving the representation question in Congress, as recorded by James Madison at the Federal Constitutional Convention.
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Loc: Islamic Manuscripts From Mali
Library of Congress site features 32 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic from Timbukti, Mali, and West Africa.
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Loc: Band Music From the Civil War Era
Explore band music from the Civil War Period at The Library of Congress website.
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Loc: Stories From Veterans
Part of the Library of Congress Veteran History Project, these stories tell of life altering occurrences events that occurred while on a mission, and the wait for those at home. These are historical and primary-source first person...
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Loc: Creating French Culture
Online exhibit from the Library of Congress in conjuction with the Bibliotheque nationale de France presents a compilation of historic treasures which tell the story of French culture and history from Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle.
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Loc: Robert Frost
The site from the Library of Congress includes the handwritten version of Frost's poem, "The Gift Outright," that Frost delivered from memory at Kennedy's inauguration.
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Loc: John Bull & Uncle Sam Exhibit : American Revolution
From the Library of Congress, a look at "Four Centuries of British-American Relations." This site is about the American Revolution and provides artifacts from that time such as The Stamp Act manuscript, a proof sheet of stamps,...
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Loc: Religion and the Founding of American Rep.: Religion and the Federal Gov
This site from the Library of Congress presents selections of articles, writings, and pictures that summarize the beliefs of the early American politicians that morality and personal independence were essential for the country. Links to...
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Loc: A Century of Lawmaking: Congressional, 1774 1875
Read the actual statements from the Library of Congress as recorded during the Federal Convention, of the debates on representation in the House of Representatives and of the struggle between small and large states. The responses to this...