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An extensive collection of texts and images detailing many aspects of life in the South during the twentieth century. Seems to focus on 'everyday' history rather than the big events. But then again history is about people, isn't it?

A valuable resource for studies into everyday life in C19th American West.

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.

Contains 150 early movies showing American past-times and everyday life from the turn of the 20th Century.

An "American Historical Association" 2009 winner of "The Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History"