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Words Without Borders
Hosted at Bard College, with a dispersed staff composed of distinguished writers, translators, and publishing professionals, Words Without Borders (WWB) seeks to address the current "dangerous imbalance" in publishing (about 50% of all books in translatio
Wired for Books: Celebrating Books, Reading, and Literature
For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for
The Mark Twain House
Step back to the Gilded Age during guided tours of the 19-room, Tiffany-decorated mansion where Mark Twain raised his family and worked from 1874 to 1891. During this incredibly productive period, Twain created such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawye
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage As
Voices of Civil Rights :: Home
AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, which serves as both a living memorial
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941
Voices in casual talk and song in the migrant camps of California, 1940 to 1941. Includes MP3 files and other formats. [264] In Your Classroom: Between World War I and World War II, teaching about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression can be a challenge.
Television News Archive
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast
Tighsolas
This is an extraordinary web site, in the making, that includes information relics of a Canadian-born, Canadian schooled man (Norman Nicholson), hemlock bark dealer, turkey salesman, Town Public Works Clerk, Inspector for the Transcontinental Railway and
THOMAS (Library of Congress)
This is perhaps one of the richest websites on the Internet, especially from the perspective of U.S. citizens. Thomas features a wide variety of information and data about the Congress that is both up-to-date and historic.
Michigan State University Libraries - Vincent Voice Library
This site includes WAV and MPEG2 files of many U.S. Presidents going back to Benjamin Harrison. Talks include: * William McKinley in one of his front porch speeches * William H. Taft talks about having a sense of humor Also included are Florence Nightinga
The Supreme Court Historical Society - Home
Celebrating more than 25 years of service to the Supreme Court, the legal profession, historians, and the public, the Supreme Court Historical Society was incorporated in 1974 for the purpose of expanding public awareness of the history and heritage of th
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
The Stars and Stripes was a newspaper written by troops (and for the troops) serving in the American Expeditionary Force of the United States Army during the United States' involvement in World War I. The newspaper's existence was endorsed by official ord
The Pulitzer Prizes | What's New
A timeline of the Pulitzer Prize winners going back to 1917. [237] In Your Classroom: You might have students create a database of the prizes, especially in journalism, and categorize them. Then the students might look for trends or patterns in issues tha
The Papers of George Washington
This website holds a significant representation of the 'Papers of George Washington' which was established in 1969. They include letters written to Washington as well as letter and documents written by him. A new feature of this site is the search engine
The Online Books Page
A database of full text books on line that is searchable. You can also browse by author, title, and subject.
The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Periodicals
This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufac
The Medici Archive Project | The Medici Archive Project
The Medici family is widely considered one of the most famous and respected patrons of arts during the Renaissance, and their legacy perseveres in the numerous works of art, music, and sculpture that were produced as a result of their beneficence. The arc
The Internet Poetry Archive
The works of contemporary poets (Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker, Yusef Komunyakaa) in both text and Real Audio
The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature
Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
Widely understood to be one of the single most important inventions in human history, the development of movable type by Johann Gutenberg in the 15th century made it possible to produce a large number of copies of a single work in a relatively short perio
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