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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
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This is a multimedia anthology illustrating the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
07/13/2000
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American Women: A Reference Guide
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American Women: A Reference Guide
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This is a first stop for using Library of Congress resources to do research in the field of American women's history. It presents some digital items; however, it serves primarily as a comprehensive guide to the entirety of the Library's holdings on women's history. It includes exhibits that feature women and how to find women within exhibits where they're not featured. Essays examine women as a symbol 1590-1800, the women's suffrage parade of 1913, and the equal rights amendment.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
10/26/2004
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Bill of Rights
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Bill of Rights
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On 12 September 1787, during the final days of the Constitutional Convention, George Mason of Virginia expressed the desire that the Constitution be prefaced by a Bill of Rights. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts proposed a motion to form a committee to incorporate such a declaration of rights; however the motion was defeated. This lesson examines the First Congress's addition of a Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Subject:
Arts Education
Social Studies
History
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
LOC Collections
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
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This site documents the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage. The site features books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from collections of the Library of Congress.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
09/26/2000
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Explore the States
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Explore the States
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An interactive map of the United States with information, interactive activities, and links about all 50 states. The information provided varies from historical, geographical, biological, and cultural in nature.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
America's Library
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
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First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
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This site consists of letters, journals, books, newspapers, maps, and images documenting the land, peoples, and exploration of the trans-Appalachian West. The first European travelers, their relations with Native Americans, new settlers' migration and acquisition of land, navigation down the Ohio River, planting of crops, trade in tobacco and horses, and the roles of African Americans, women, churches, and schools are documented.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
11/23/2004
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First-Person Narratives of the American South
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First-Person Narratives of the American South
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"First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
07/29/2005
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The Hannah Arendt Papers
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The Hannah Arendt Papers
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This site offers selections from a writer whose work is one of the principal sources for the study of modern intellectual life. Selections include an essay on Arendt's intellectual history, a chronology of her life, and an index of all folders in the Arendt Papers.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
02/13/2001
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Join America at Play
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Join America at Play
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Discover America's favorite pastimes, sports and hobbies, including baseball, vacationing, dancing, rodeo, and quilting. Play the "Batter Up" interactive history baseball game.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
America's Library
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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Jump Back in Time
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Jump Back in Time
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This website takes students through various eras in American History such as Colonial America, the Revolutionary Period, Western Expansion, The Civil War, The Gilded Age, The Great Depression, and Much More.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
America's Library
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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Meet Amazing Americans
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Meet Amazing Americans
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Discover the inventors, politicians, performers, activists and other everyday people who made this country what it is today. Includes brief biographies and interactive activities associated with historical figures such as W.E.B. DuBois, Amelia Earhart, Lewis & Clark, Mark Twain, George Washington, and many more.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
America's Library
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letter
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Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letter
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This site illustrates the story of settlement on the Great Plains. Family letters of one homesteader express personal insight into the joy, despair, and determination in his struggle to establish a home on the prairie.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
01/03/2001
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The Presidency
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The Presidency
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This site features 40 documents from 23 Presidents -- Washington's first inaugural address, Adams' description of his reception by King George III as America's first minister to Great Britain, Adams' letter ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to D.C., Lincoln's instructions to the commander at Fort Sumter, Roosevelt's letter thanking Oppenheimer and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, and more.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
10/31/2006
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Proceedings of the Rhode-Island Anti-Slavery Convention, held in Providence, on the 2d, 3d and 4th of February, 1836
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Proceedings of the Rhode-Island Anti-Slavery Convention, held in Providence, on the 2d, 3d and 4th of February, 1836
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Pursuant to a call signed by eight hundred and fifty citizens of Rhode Island, a large number of gentlemen, friendly to the immediate abolition of slavery, assembled in the High Street Congregational Meeting House in Providence on Tuesday, February 2, 1836.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Primary Source
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
Internet Archive, Library of Congress Collection
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
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This collection assembles a wide array of Library of Congress source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government in this transition. It includes nearly 200 selections from twelve collections of personal papers and two collections of institutional papers from the Manuscript Division; 74 books, pamphlets, and legislative documents from the General Collections, along with selections from 34 consumer and trade journals; 181 photographs from the pictorial materials of the National Photo Company Collection held by the Prints and Photographs Division; and 5 short films and 7 audio selections of Coolidge speeches from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. The collection is particularly strong in advertising and mass-marketing materials and will be of special interest to those seeking to understand economic and political forces at work in the 1920s.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
07/25/2000
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Reclaiming the Everglades
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Reclaiming the Everglades
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Reclaiming the Everglades represents all or part of sixteen 'physical' collections housed in the archives and special collections of University of Miami, Florida International University and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. This online compilation includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government.

Subject:
History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Primary Source
Reading
Provider:
Library of Congress
Provider Set:
American Memory
Date Added:
03/26/2019
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