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Loc: From Haven to Home: 350 Years of u.s. Jewish Life
This in-depth online exhibit features more than two hundred treasures of American Jewish life from the Library of Congress and other cultural institutions.
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Loc: Editorial Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
An exhibit at the Library of Congress tracing the career of Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes.
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Loc: Official Us Executive Branch Websites
This is the official US executive branch site. Provides links to every department of this government branch.
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Loc: Cartoon Cornucopia: J. Arthur Wood, Jr., Collection
The Library of Congress offers a digitized collection of caricature, cartoon, and animated art. The collection is searchable and short histories of cartoonists, types of cartoons, and animation are included.
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Loc: United States & Brazil: Comparing Cultures
This bilingual site explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and compares and contrasts Brazilian and American culture and history.
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Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era
This two-part feature on African American history offers an in-depth look at the events of the 1960's civil rights movement. Discusses voting rights, laws, military segregation, freedom rides, sit-ins and the NAACP. Includes historic...
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Loc: Policies and Problems of the Confederation Government
This teacher resource includes imagesand historical documents, alllowing readers to trace the creation of our government from the Continental Congress through the Articles of Confederation. An overview helps to clarify the policies and...
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Loc: Teaching With Primary Sources: Hispanic Exploration in America [Pdf]
This is a great lesson plan from the Library of Congress that shows how to use primary sources in the examination of the Spanish Conquistadors in America. The lesson offers many possible activities for students to use with the primary...
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Loc: Teachers: Lessons: Wall of Dreams
Read personal dreams for America's future, and share one of your own. Hundreds of dreams from across the country and around the world, all in hope for a better tomorrow.
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Loc: Portraits of the Presidents & First Ladies
A collection from the Library of Congress of formal and informal portraits of the US presidents and their first ladies.
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Loc: From the Home Front and the Front Lines
Exhibition consisting of original materials and oral histories drawn from the Veterans History Project collections.
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Loc: Herblock's Presidents
Historically significant collection of political cartoons featuring U.S. Presidents from Library of Congress online teacher-student resources.
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Loc: The Civil Rights Era: A Civil Rights Act of 1964 Pamphlet
From the archives of the Library of Congress read the pamphlet that explained the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in plain language. Find out all the different issues the law addressed and what one could do if the law wasn't being followed. A...
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Loc: The Industrial Revolution in the United States (Teacher's Guide) [Pdf]
The Industrial Revolution was a complex set of economic, technological, and social changes that occurred over a substantial period of time. This teacher's guide gives background information, and suggestions for stimulating student...
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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: Primary Documents in American History: The Articles of Confederation
The original Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between thirteen states, created in 1777 and ratified in 1781. It preceded the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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Loc: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention: Elliot's Debates
Here one can view the five volumes of The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, which were put together by Jonathan Elliot in the mid-1800s. These debates extend from September 1787 to...
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Loc: Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention: Farrand's Records
Three of the four volumes of Max Farrand's collection of the records of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Called The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, these documents are a critical part of American governmental history.
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Loc: Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: The Making of the u.s. Constitution
The introduction to the first volume of the Annals of Congress, in which there is a short history of the creation of the Constitution, and the text of the Constitution as it was first written.
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Loc: Herblock's Gift
An overview of Herb Block's Editorial Cartoons which were gifted to the Library of Congress. The archive includes records, clippings, photographs and various articles as well as 14,000 original drawings.
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Loc: Temple of Liberty
The Library of Congress presents research materials about the building of the United States Capitol. Conceiving of themselves as inheritors, guardians, and conveyors of Western civilization, our founding fathers slowly built a Capitol...
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Loc: American Treasures: Cornwallis's Defeat at Yorktown
A great map showing the arrangement of French ships during the French blockade at the Chesapeake Bay during the siege of Yorktown. From a collection at 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.