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Transatlantic Encounters & Colonial Beginnings
Maps of Discovery & Exploration
Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier: Exploration and Early Settlement
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Images of Christopher Columbus and His Voyages
Encounters in America
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
The Americas: Cultures & History
Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
Colonial North America
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Words & Deeds in American History
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
Finding Franklin: A Resource Guide
Stories About Colonial America
American Revolutionary Era
Guide to the American Revolution
Words & Deeds in American History
The Rochambeau Map Collection
The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts
Madison's Treasures
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
The James Madison Papers
Documents from the Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
Early Virginia Religious Petitions
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
Stories About the Revolutionary Period
The Early Republic
Words & Deeds in American History
Information and Resources about the New Nation
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
Thomas Jefferson
The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
Cartoon Prints, American 1776-1876
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Stories About the New Nation
Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny
Info & Resources about Territorial Expansion & Reform
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion
First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from MI, MN, & WI
Stories About Western Expansion & Reform
Transformation in Antebellum America
Words & Deeds in American History
American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Abolition
The African-American Mosaic
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
Sunday School Books: Shaping Youth Values in 19th-Century America
Civil War & Reconstruction
Words & Deeds in American History
Information & Resources about the Civil War & Reconstruction
Civil War Maps
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
The Hotchkiss Map Collection
The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Civil War Photographs
Eyewitness Sketches of Civil War Scenes & Events
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Band Music from the Civil War Era
We'll Sing to Abe Our Song! Sheet Music Collection
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment
New-York Historical Society Civil War Treasures
Civil War Poetry Resources
Washington during the Civil War: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft
The African-American Experience in Ohio
From Slavery to Freedom: African-American Pamphlets
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1885
Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War Webcast
Brady-Handy Collection: Photographs of leading figures
Stories About the Civil War
Stories About Reconstruction
Origins of the New South
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
African American Photographs Assembled For 1900 Paris Exposition
The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South
Jim Crow in America
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
Western Expansion
The African-American Mosaic
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Frontier Life in South Dakota & Wyoming
Western Nevada & Northern California settlement
The Chinese in California
First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years
Photographs of the American West
Photographs of the Northern Great Plains
Nebraska Photographs & Family Letters
Trails to Utah & the Pacific: Diaries & Letters
Industrial America Around the Turn of the 20th Century
Stereograph Cards
World Transportation Commission Photos from the 1890s
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers
Samuel F. B. Morse Papers, 1793-1919
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair
Films of the Westinghouse Works
Early Motion Pictures & Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
Urban Society Around the Turn of the 20th Century
Panoramic Maps
Panoramic Photographs 1880-1930
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920
Small-Town America: Stereoscopic Views, 1850-1920
Detroit Publishing Company 1885-1930
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
America at Work, America at Leisure: Films, 1894-1915
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Populism & Progressivism
Words & Deeds in American History
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Mapping the National Parks
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th Century
Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party
The Emergence of America as a World Power
Guide to World War I Materials
Webcast - Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: Colonel Edward M. House
World War I Posters
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919
The Stars and Stripes: Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Recordings from World War I & the 1920 Election
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Perspectives of Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
Origins of American Animation
Photographs from the South Texas Border, 1900-1920
The New Era: 1920s
The Coolidge Era & the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
Bain Photo Collection 1900-1931: New York city & Worldwide News Events
Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway
Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1922-1932
The Great Depression & the New Deal
Words & Deeds in American History
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Life of the People: Realist Prints & Drawings
Federal Writers' Project American Life Histories, 1936-1940
Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Florida Folklife, 1937-1942
Voices from the Dust Bowl, 1940-1941
Northern California Folk Music
Blues, Gospel, & the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943
The Zora Neale Hurston Plays
Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
World War II
Guide to World War II Materials
World War II: American Treasures of the Library of Congress
World War II Military Situation Maps
Churchill and the Great Republic
Veterans Stories - Buffalo Soldiers: The 92nd in Italy
Veterans Stories - Buffalo Soldiers: China-Burma-India: WWII's Forgotten Theater
Veterans Stories - D Day
Veterans Stories - War's End: VE- and VJ-Days
Veterans Stories - Jewish Veterans of World War II
Veterans Stories - The War (Companion to the Ken Burns Series)
Women Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII
Segregation Abroad and at Home
From the Home Front and the Front Lines
American Memory Timeline: World War II
Jump Back in Time: Depression & WWII (1929-1945)
World War II Webcast: 365 Days
War's End: Eyewitness to History Webcast, Part 1
War's End: Eyewitness to History Webcast, Part 2
D-Day: A Key to Victory Webcast
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Unsung Heroes Webcast: Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 1
Unsung Heroes Webcast: Heroism of Asian Pacific Americans During World War II, Part 2
Rosie the Riveter Webcast: Real Women Workers in World War II
Books as Weapons in the Era of World War II Webcast
Ibsen and Hitler Webcast: The Playwright, the Plagiarist and the Plot for the Third Reich
The Home Front During World War II
"Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Oral Histories Webcast
Primary Source Set: Japanese American Internment During World War II
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Born Free and Equal
: Digitized Book by Ansel Adams
Lesson Plan: Japanese American Internment
Farm Security Administration/Office Of War Information Color Photographs, 1939-44
Farm Security Administration/Office Of War Information BW Negatives, 1939-44
Freedom's Fortress: The Library of Congress, 1939-1953
Bound for Glory: America in Color
Women Workers During World War II
Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
Woody Guthrie Correspondence, 1940-1950
Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande
Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals 1938-1943
William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Architecture & Interior Design: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho & William Schleisner, 1935-55
The Cold War
The Cold War
For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Edmund Valtman: The Cartoonist Who Came in from the Cold
End of the Cold War Webcast
Mission Italy: On the Front Line of the Cold War Webcast
The 1950s
Words & Deeds in American History
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Voices of Civil Rights
"With an Even Hand": Brown v. Board at Fifty
Brown v. Board of Education Resources
Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
Webcast: National Security - Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case
The 1960s
Words & Deeds in American History
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Voices of Civil Rights
African American Odyssey: Civil Rights Era
Civil Rights Primary Source Set
Webcast: Letters from the Civil Rights Years
Civil Rights Resource Links
Webcast: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights
Photos of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination
Civil Rights Era: Images from U.S. News & World Report
Politics & Economics Towards the End of the 20th Century
Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
Humor's Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes
Oliphant's Anthem: Cartoons by Pat Oliphant
Enduring Outrage: Editorial Cartoons by HERBLOCK
Political, Propaganda & Social Issue Printed Ephemera
Society & Culture Towards the End of the 20th Century
Omaha Indian Music
Quilts & Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996
Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting
Folklife & Landscape in Southern West Virginia
Donald Hall: LOC Poet Laureate
Webcast: Renewing American Culture: The Pursuit of Happiness
The U.S. & the World in the 21st Century
September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
21st-Century Country Profiles
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