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Slavery & Abolition in the US
Nice database of digitized documents about slavery from the 19th century. The searching capacities are especially efficient.
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The works in this collection reflect arguments on both sides of the slavery
debate and include first person narratives, legal proceedings and decisions,
anti-slavery tracts, religious sermons, and early secondary works.
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Shorpy | The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
Blog providing photographs in High def from the past 150 years. Most come from the Library of Congress. Organized in galleries that can be usefull for specific projects (New Deal, Industrialization, Civil War, Technology.) Make sure to double check the source (original website for example.) Comments can be usefull.
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CLAN Digital Collection : Browse
"The Cooperative Libraries Automated Network, operated by the Nevada State Library and Archives in Carson City, has begun digitizing its collection of state newspapers. One of the collections is the White Pine News, published in Ely from 1881 to 1906, which contains much valuable information on the copper, silver, and gold mines of the region, as well as everyday life in the Great Basin. Other papers include the Wadsworth Dispatch and the Reese River Reveille. " (American Libraries Direct 05-20-2009)
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GUIDE TO HISTORY ON THE WEB
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes 12 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. The University Library of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DocSouth, and the texts and materials come primarily from its holdings. Classroom activities and resources are provided in a separate portal, available at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/classroom. Included in this toolkit are digital narratives, images, and ideas for extending the lesson plans. For example, in the lesson entitled "Brown vs. the Board of Education: Rhetoric and Realities," students can listen to a 1974 interview with then Governor George Wallace where he shares his opinions about the power of the judicial branch of the federal government. For history teachers and librarians searching for resources on the history of the South, its people, and the influences that they have made on the rest of the nation, Documenting the American South is an essential resource to supplement any U.S. history textbook.
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Documenting the American South homepage
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes 12 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. The University Library of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DocSouth, and the texts and materials come primarily from its holdings. Classroom activities and resources are provided in a separate portal, available at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/classroom. Included in this toolkit are digital narratives, images, and ideas for extending the lesson plans. For example, in the lesson entitled "Brown vs. the Board of Education: Rhetoric and Realities," students can listen to a 1974 interview with then Governor George Wallace where he shares his opinions about the power of the judicial branch of the federal government. For history teachers and librarians searching for resources on the history of the South, its people, and the influences that they have made on the rest of the nation, Documenting the American South is an essential resource to supplement any U.S. history textbook.
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Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
Chronicling America is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. It provides users with the ability to search and view newspaper pages from 1880 to 1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present. Users can read digitalized online pages of newspapers no longer in publication, such as: The Los Angeles Herald, The Colored American (Washington, DC), The Bourbon News (Paris, KY), and The Jimplecute (Jefferson, TX). Users can also search for news articles by city, state, county, date of publication, ethnicity, and more. Chronicling America is a fabulous primary source database that provides many unique perspectives on U.S. history.
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Magic Lantern Slides Collection from Japan
This collection of Magic Lantern Slides from the University of Hawaii includes about 800 slides given by Okumura with a lot of them related to the life during hte Meiji era. You can browse by donor or themes to find topics that you want, including the Russo-japanese war of 1905.
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Lincoln, Washington DC Travel | goSmithsonian
From the Smithsonian museums, reflect the commemoration events of Abraham Lincoln through videos, exploration of cities from Lincoln's era.
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The Archaeology Channel Video Guide
Better than a video catalog. Access several videos from the Archaeology channel. View the videos and decide if you want to buy them. Cover Greece, Italy, the Americas, China, Europe and much more
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Yale University Library - The Map Collection / Online Maps
Ancient maps for the Yale University map collection. Include maps on World War I and Africa as well as maps of North and South America from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Antisemitism | Voices on Antisemitism
this series contains over 50 conversations with Holocaust survivors, judges from South Africa, and German scholar Matthias Küntzel.
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First world war | World news | guardian.co.uk
From the Guardian, an interesting website with videocast.
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Podcasts of Library events
Podast of the Royal Society. Especially interesting for History of Science.
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Friday 17 October, 1pm
Sir Isaac Newton, Science, and Unorthodox
Theology
Podcast forthcomingSir Isaac Newton spent much of his life investigating
subjects we would not now think of as scientific, including alchemy and his own
private theology. This talk will explore the links between the different areas
of Newton's research.
Rob Iliffe, University of Sussex -
Friday 5 October, 1.00pm
Arabic in Britain': the Royal Society,
Arab and Islamic astronomy, and the Arabic language
audio
podcast (video podcast not available)By the Society's foundation in 1660, Britain had become the
European centre for the study of Arabic, the key to unlocking the influx of
knowledge from the Arab and Islamic world. This talk, with a focus on astronomy,
examines this interest in Arabic, highlighting the Arabic books and manuscripts
in the Society's Library.
Dr Rim Turkmani, Royal Society Dorothy
Hodgkin Fellow, Imperial College London - 4 more annotations...
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University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections : Browse
Collection of 171 French pamphlet from the French Revolution. All in French
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The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online - Harvard College Library
Interviews of USSR refugees done during the Cold War and showing some elements of the life in the Soviet Union between 1917 and the Cold War. Scanned originals.
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