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Dpla: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This primary source set uses recordings, documents, and photographs to tell the story behind the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", by Zora Neale Hurston.
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Dpla: Jitterbugs, Swing Kids, and Lindy Hoppers
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the history of swing dance.
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Dpla: The Golden Age of Broadway
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, recordings, and photographs to tell the story of the "golden age" of Broadway.
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Dpla: Pop Art in the Us
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the history of pop art.
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Dpla: Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of how the steam engine transformed the railroad industry and played crucial roles in the Industrial Revolution and westward expansion.
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Dpla: Jacksonian Democracy?
The purpose of this primary source set is to weigh both sides of the argument and decide whether Jackson's presidency was a time of democracy, a time of rising nationalism or a combination of the two.
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Dpla: Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement
This primary source set uses documents and photographs to tell the story of several women reformers of the early 1800s.
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Dpla: Electrifying America
This primary source set explores the development, commercialization, and impact of electricity.
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Dpla: Women and the Blues
This primary source set uses recordings, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the origins of blues music in which women were an influential part.
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Dpla: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and the Urbanization of Chicago
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie and the Urbanization of Chicago."
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Dpla: Becoming an American
Through primary source documents, learn about the opportunities and pressures immigrants have confronted to "become American," from cultural and educational programs like English language classes and social events to formal citizenship...
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Dpla: Women in Science: Space Exploration
Through primary source documents, discover the history of NASA's "human computers," early aerospace industry pioneers, and the struggle for American women to be allowed into the astronaut program.
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Dpla: Women in Science: Medicine
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about women in medicine. Discover women's impact in the field of medicine, as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and researchers while exploring key...