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Loc: Frank Lloyd Wright
Rich with drawings, photographs, and text, this site from the Library of Congress is an online exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas for a new American landscape and the place of architecture in it.
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Loc: Major Events in History: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A synopsis of the events preceding the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, plus great pictures and links to excellent maps of the area negotiated for and to the text of the actual document.
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Loc: American Memory: The Coolidge Era & Consumer Economy
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's...
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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: Perestroika
In these revelations from Russian archives, perestroika is explained. Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling the totalitarian state. Also contains...
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Loc: American Memory: Alice Henry: The Trade Union Woman
Excerpt from the Preface to Alice Henry's book, The Trade Union Woman (1915) in which Henry argues for regulation of wages and working conditions for women. Link to the entire book.
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Loc: Thomas Jefferson: Establishing a Federal Republic
This Library of Congress article states that Jefferson, although serving as U.S. minister in France while the U.S. Constitution was being written, still influenced its outcome and wording through correspondence. Read this brief overview...
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Loc: Jefferson's "Original Rough Draught"
Readers can explore a reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, before it was revised by the members of the Committee of Five.
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Loc: American Memory: Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy
This collection of primary historical documents provides a variety of resources from the Coolidge era. Covers the transformation of the American economy into a mass-consumer culture from a variety of perspectives.
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Loc: Religion & the American Revolution
This essay discusses how religion influenced people in regards to fighting the British during the American Revolution. There are several primary sources to examine in this site.
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Loc: The World of 1898: The Spanish American War
The Library of Congress offers this detailed history of the Spanish American War from historical papers. Includes manuscripts, maps, and illustrations, and an excellent overview essay.
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Loc: American Memory: Voice of the Carpet Bagger
The Library of Congress provides the full text to The Voice of the Carpet Bagger, a 48 page pamphlet defending Reconstruction and protesting lynching and violence against blacks. The pamphlet was originally published in 1901.
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Loc: The Floating World of Ukiyo E
An exhibition review on the Japanese art form Ukiyo-e. Very nice images and history of this art form with an interpretation of an historical link of Japan and the Western world.
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Loc: Hispanic Americans in Congress
View an exhaustive list of Hispanic Americans in Congress. View their photos as well as read of their works and accomplishments.
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Loc: Wise Guide: Honor Your Father, at Least Once a Year
The Library of Congress provides information on the origins and observation of Father's Day.
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Loc: American Memory: Evolution of Conservation Movement
American Memory site documents the historical formation of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage. Browse through literature, books, pamphlets, government documents, and manuscripts drawn from the collections of...
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Loc: American Memory: Journals of the Continental Congress
A comprehensive list of links to the original text of the official journals of the proceedings of the First and Second Continental Congresses.
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Loc: Religion and the State Governments
This site from the Library of Congress is an essay describing the state responses to religion after independence was declared.
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Loc: African American Mosaic: Liberia
This website from the Library of Congress has primary source documents and pictures concerning the development of Liberia as a country for freed slaves in Africa. There are links to other areas on the Library of Congress website.
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Loc: Thomas Jefferson: The West
This resource explains Jefferson's interest in westward expansion while showing and describing many original documents.
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Loc: Attacks on Intelligentsia Suppressing Dissidents
A collection of Russian documents (letters,telegrams, etc.) that supported the suppression of dissidents. Also includes an introduction explaining the dissidents.
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Loc: Hispanic Americans in Congress: Henry B. Gonzalez
Extensive biography of Democratic congressman and Hispanic leader, Henry Gonzalez.
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Loc: Knowledge and Power in Medieval France
Resource provides text and artifacts from France from late 8th to late 15th centuries. Discusses the roles of monarchs and monasteries in early French history.
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Loc: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
The Library of Congress exhibition provides information and pictures of documents as well as photographs of the Russian Church era in Alaska.