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Loc: Parallel Histories: Exploration and Early Settlement
Read about the Spanish conquistadors who explored what was to become Spanish America. Included are links to digital collections from the Library of Congress and the National Library of Spain.
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Loc: Jay's Treaty: Primary Documents in American History
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory Historical Collections, this excellent website has a direct hyperlink to a digitized version of Jay's Treaty, a bibliography and related quotes from important figures.
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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: Everyday Mysteries, Why Does Hair Turn Gray?
Explore the science behind gray hair through this summary produced by the Library of Congress.
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Loc: Paul Laurence Dunbar: Online Resources
"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with Paul Laurence Dunbar, including manuscripts, photographs, and books." This resource tool gathers links to digital materials available...
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Loc: Experiencing War: Prisoners of War in Japan
The Library of Congress offers riveting accounts of soldiers who were held as prisoners of war by the Japanese in World War II. Read about their experiences, and listen to some audio diaries or watch videos of interviews with these brave...
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Loc: Experiencing War: Prisoners of War in Germany
Read the amazing stories of World War II soldiers captured by the Germans and imprisoned in POW camps. The Library of Congress offers their stories as well as video interviews with some of these brave men.
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Loc: European Reading Room: Germans in America Chronology
This site from the Library of Congress provides a good overview of events relating to German immigrants provided in a timeline from 1608 to 1990.
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Loc: Mediterranean World on the Eve of Conquest
The Library of Congress provides an essay on the reasons for exploration during the 15th century.
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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: 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: Revelations From the Russian Archives: Secret Police
This site from the Library of Congress is a brief description of the history of the secret police in the Soviet Union. Its origins are found during the time of the revolution.
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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: 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: 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: The African American Mosaic: Colonization
Library of Congress presents a collection of primary source material on the beginnings of the American Colonization Society and efforts of free blacks to return to Liberia during the Nineteenth Century.
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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: Indian Land Cessions in the United States 1784 1894
This site from the Library of Congress provides links to the original land cession deals between Indians and the Federal Government are provided. Search for documents can be accomplished by searching for Indian tribe, state/territory, or...
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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.
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Loc: Veterans History Project
A collection, sponsored by the Library of Congress, of stories and experiences of veterans "while they are still among us." Students can also interview a veteran using the Project Kit supplied. Choose: How to participate in the Project...
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Loc: Nabokov Revealed
This article from the July/August issue of the Library of Congress Information Bulletin announces the opening of Vladimir Nabokov's papers to the public. Nabokov (1899-1977) had specified that they not be available until June 23, 2009....
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Loc: u.s. Participation in the Great War (World War One)
A comprehensive overview of the Progressive Era to New Era (1900-1929) through the use of primary sources provided by the Library of Congress, with concentration on World War One. Through these documents, the effects of the war on...
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Loc: Teachers: Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
Lesson from the Library of Congress on "the era of legal segregation in America, from Plessy v. Ferguson (1897) to Brown v. The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)."
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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.