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Loc: America's Story: Henry Hudson and His Crew
A retelling of Henry Hudson's historic voyage to New York in 1609, and up the river that would eventually bear his name.
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Loc: Frederick Law Olmstead
Landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead, created Central Park, and helped with the preservation of Yosemite National Park and Niagara Falls. Discover this brief description of his life and work, and click through Olmsted's portrait...
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Loc: America's Story: Daniel Boone First Saw the Woodlands of Kentucky
Explore the wilderness of Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Here is a brief summary of his travels. Also features a portrait of Boone, a photograph of his cabin, and a beautiful engraving of Cumberland Gap.
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Loc: America's Story: Mahalia Jackson
Learn about the " Queen of Gospel", New Orleans born singer Mahalia Jackson.
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Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists, and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
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Loc: America's Story: The Brooklyn Bridge
The history of the Brooklyn Bridge is an interesting story from our early days. Go to this site and learn who built it, how it was built, and many more facts. Some original pictures are included.
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Loc: The Great Depression and the 1990s
This site includes a unit about the Great Depression. Students will create a creative writing based on Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" photograph. They will also write a position paper on the United States' current welfare issue....
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Loc: Topics in Chronicling America: The Mc Kinley Assassination
Find contemporary newspaper accounts of the shooting of President Willian McKinley, his death, the swearing of Theodore Roosevelt as president, and the capture, trial, and execution of the assassin.
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Loc: Naacp: A Century in the Fight for Freedom 1909 2009
An exhibit featuring the accomplishments, people, and events that helped to form the NAACP from 1909-2009.
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Loc: Herblock's History of Political Cartoons
Outstanding online exhibition featuring the works of political cartoonist, Herb Block,the creator of the phrase "McCarthyism." Spanning seventy years, this exhibit of over one hundred of his works shows why this Pulitzer Prize winner was...
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Loc: Creating the United States
This resource examines the creativity and inspiration that went into the creation and writing of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
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Loc: American Memory: Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...
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Loc: Lesson Plans: Political Cartoons: Finding Point of View
Lesson plan on analyzing a political cartoon that satirizes the Stamp Act.
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Loc: Experiencing War: Prisoners of War
Online presentation of personal narratives includes remembrances from former POWs held captive in Germany, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
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Loc: Experiencing War: Military Medicine
Stories focus on military medicine and highlight personal accounts from doctors, nurses, and individuals providing medical support.
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Loc: Veteran's History Project: The Art of War
The stories of wars told through artwork. The photographs, drawings, cartoons, paintings, etc. tell the stories of World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
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Loc: Exhibitions: The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairy Tale
An online exhibit that provides a collection of colorful artifacts related to L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." See a poster promoting Baum's children's books as well as many book covers, artwork from the "The Wizard of Oz," personal...
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Loc: West Side Story: Birth of a Classic
View the online exhibit featuring photographs, documents--opening night telegraphs, letters, notes by Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein, set designs--and other items such as posters, DVD covers, and a pair of slippers worn in the...
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Loc: Experiencing the Global War on Terror: Stories From Veterans Memory Project
From the Veterans Memory Project a series of interviews with veterans of the Global war on Terror built around four themes; attitudes toward service and war,combat,re-entry to civilian life, and the impacts of the experience.
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Loc: Obama Takes Oath on Lincoln Bible
The small velvet covered Lincoln inaugural Bible served as the swearing-in Bible for Obama. Read about the history of this cherished book.
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Loc: Presidents as Poets: Jimmy Carter
An overview of President Jimmy Carter's work as a poet. Includes summary and a link to a video with a reading of one of his poems.
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Loc: Presidents as Poets: John Tyler
Insight into the private poems by President John Tyler. With quotes of his works and a link to an original transcript.
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Loc: Presidents as Poets: John Quincy Adams
Insight into the life of President John Quincy Adams as a reader and writer of poetry. Includes quotes from some of his poems.
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Loc: Presidents as Poets: James Madison
An account of President James Madison's brief stint as a poet. Includes the text of his poem "A poem against the Tories".