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** Resources for American Studies : **
[] Includes teaching strategies, key topics with related resources, plus a searchable database. Suggestion: Sign up for the email newsletter. Also, from the Smithsonian Institute:
 * Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History **
 * [|American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress]**

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The story of America is reflected in these images, sounds, written accounts, and a myriad more items of cultural documentation of ordinary people who live everyday lives, from cooking and eating meals, to the activities of work and play, to religious observances and seasonal celebration. Folk life includes the songs we sing, the stories we tell, the crafts we make, soon to include [|**StoryCorps**] from NPR.=====

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In addition to primary resources, here you can search for artifacts, interactive activities, media, lesson/unit plans, reviewed web sites, lesson/unit plans and more. Better yet, you can search by keyword, grade level, historical era, and format, =====

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The Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated [|manuscripts], historical [|maps], vintage [|posters], rare [|prints], [|photographs] and [|more].=====

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Here you can search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. =====

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The AHC is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. "It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them." It's an outstanding GREAT SITE for Primary Sources and a labor of love for its creator, Michael Shawn Barnes, a social studies teacher. [TO DO: check out legality of using these iamges. Some are c of the AHC. But how can that be?] =====

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"American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later." The teacher section includes possible topics, lesson plans and more. =====

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"AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites." Primary resources include documents, images, and video, It's resources are freely available for two types of memberships" individual and academic. =====

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In addition to the historical documents of the U.S. the Archives also hold in trust for the public the records of ordinary citizens. They capture the sweep of the past: [|America’s Historical Documents], many [|online exhibits] with associated [|teachers’ lesson plans] and various web pages describing records by [|research topic]. =====

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100 milestone documents of American history, from 1776 to 1965. Includes transcripts and large images, the official text of Federal laws, Presidential documents, administrative regulations and notices, and descriptions of Federal organizations, programs and activities. Also from NARA: =====

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"To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union." =====

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A partner of the National Archives, "Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past." With a motto of "History for the People —Discover Discuss Connect Share," Footnote members can use create their own Footnote page giving students with the opportunity to collaborate and publish their work. =====

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"Its mission is to build an online community around history, using an amalgamation of the United States National Archives and social networking to foster contact between users who can download documents from the site and upload their own scanned content." =====

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Courtesy of the University of North Carolina, this site provides historical documents including texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes twelve thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. =====

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" This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case. =====

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- Web site is a companion to **Africans in America**, a six-hour public television series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States -- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. For each part, there is a **Narrative**, which relates the history of the period and provides links to specific entries in the Resource Bank. The **Resource Bank** is a compilation of over 400 items, comprised of **People and Events** entries (in-depth biographies and historical notes), **Historical Documents** (annotated visual materials and texts), and **Modern Voices** (commentaries excerpted from the original interviews with experts who appear on-camera in the television series). The **Teacher's Guide** provides a context for teachers and students =====

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the digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper from reels of microfilm has been broken down into more than one phase. Phase I, which can at present be found on this site, covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. The actual images of the pages are searchable by date, keyword, type of article. =====

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[|Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project] - The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. Digital images of the pages of each cookbook are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, across the collection, in order to find specific information.=====

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//Survey Graphic// was the monthly illustrated number of //Survey// magazine, the premier journal of social work in America in the 1920s. In November of 1924, the //Survey//'s chief editor, Paul Kellogg, asked Alain Locke (then a professor of philosophy at Howard University) to design and edit a special issue devoted to the African American "Renaissance" underway in Harlem. Locke agreed, and the magazine that resulted was the first of several attempts to formulate a political and cultural representation of the New Negro and the Harlem community=====

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[|articles], [|e-books], and [|links]. The article section contains the articles, documents, essays, and photographs=====

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//After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans encountered strong hostility, prejudice, and discrimination. Fearing that Japan might next strike the West Coast of the United States and that Japanese Americans would "spy" for the enemy, Thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West coast were rounded up and confined to internment camps located inland. These photos offer a view of what life was like for the Japanese Americans.//=====

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T hese letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk. The final letter, describing the long-awaited mustering out in August of 1865, was written to his parents. =====

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[|Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music] - The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. The collection spans the years 1780 to 1980, but its strength is its throrough documentation of nineteenth-century America through popular music. The collection is especially strong in music spawned by m=====

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[|Making of America] aking of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. =====

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[|New Deal Network] - database of primary source materials—photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents)— gathered from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress, and other sources.=====

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[|New York Heritage] - more than 160 distinct digital collections that reflect New York State's long history. These collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly, and cultural materials held in libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books, and more.=====

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[|New York State Archives -- Rediscovering New York: History and Culture] - Here you can access links to digitized photographs, documents and online exhibits from New York's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums. The images reveal a tiny fraction of the documents, photographs, maps, and other archival records held by historical record respositories throughout New York and hint at the richness and variety of the collections that tell the stories of New York's communities and people.=====

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[|New York State Archives -- The Legacies Project] - The Legacies Project website is an educational resource from the New York State Archives and the Verizon Foundation that focuses on the history of the Chinese and Latino populations in the Capital District, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and New York City. It contains concise histories of the Chinese and Latino communities in each city and document-based activities. The histories and activities include definitions of important vocabulary terms and are illustrated with both historical and contemporary documents and photographs.=====

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The 338 items, primarily World War II-era posters, featured in this site's database were collected and preserved by the Northwestern University Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department. Issued by various U.S. government agencies, these posters represent the government's effort, through art, illustration, and photographs, to pull the American people together in a time of adversity for the country and its population. =====

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This site, developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at [|Vassar College], offers students an opportunity to examine some of those sources, including numerous official documents. Brigham was the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war in Hanoi. Included here are his translations of some of the Hanoi documents, offered for examination and study.=====

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focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including: =====
 * =====** 7,500 pages of manuscripts **=====
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http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ - international documents in law, history and diplomacy from 4000 BCE to 2003 CE translated into English. Additional collections include Project DIANA - An Online Human Rights Archive and The International Military Tribunal for Germany - A Document Collection =====

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[|World Digital Library] - manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings; interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing; browse by place, time, topic, type of item or global institution; developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries;=====

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[|Nuremberg trial transcripts] and materials (Incomplete) from the Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion Donovan collection =====

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Scarsdale alum Brewster Kahle is compiling "FREE ACCESS to all human knowledge" right here. A digital library of all previous Internet sites (Wayback Machine) and cultural artifacts. Free access to film, photo, books, audio, journals, and more. =====

This site introduces students to historical documents! Created by the National Endowment for the Humanaities using resources from the American Memory collection, this site motivates students to

 * ===== Deepen their understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920 =====
 * ===== Develop skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources =====

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From the National Archives, this site includes "reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. Includes analysis worksheets for eight types of resources. =====