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Deven Black

picturing the thirties - 14 views

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    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
David Hilton

Open Collections Program: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 - 1 views

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    I love the Harvard Libraries, sharing with us plebs outside the ivory tower. How generous.
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    Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections.
Bob Maloy

Picturing the 1930s - 0 views

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    A highly interactive site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the 1930s where students can view primary sources from the period, including video and audio materials, as well as make their own documentary movies.
David Hilton

The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China - Harvard College Library - 0 views

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    Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages.
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    An obscure topic, however might be useful. Especially given the recent trouble in Western China.
David Hilton

Open Collections Program: Women Working - 1 views

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    Another one of the precious collections provided by that most excellent of libraries, Harvard University Library. It's so great that they don't just lock it up and be snobs. Good on them.
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    Women Working, 1800 - 1930 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 image
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops - 10 views

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    The Digital Comic Museum features comics from the 1930's to the 1950's. They can be used to show American culture from that period and many comics from that era are good examples of propaganda from WWII and the Cold War
Eric Beckman

T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces - 0 views

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    Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.
David Korfhage

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives - YouTube - 2 views

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    "Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. "
David Korfhage

Ling long Women's Magazine - 3 views

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    Reproductions of a women's magazine from 1930s Shanghai, with some translations of articles
David Hilton

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - 0 views

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    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Bob Maloy

resourcesforhistoryteachers - Mexican Immigration to the United States - 5 views

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    A page on the resourcesforhistoryteachers wiki dealing with Mexican immigration. Includes material on Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s and Operation Wetback in 1954 as well as other materials for classroom study
Bob Maloy

resourcesforhistoryteachers - The Dust Bowl - 0 views

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    Wiki page featuring teaching and learning resources for the Dust Bowl in the United States from 1930 to 1940.
Aaron Palm

Herbert Aptheker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Herbert Aptheker (July 31, 1915 – March 17, 2003) was an American Marxist historian and political activist. He authored over 50 volumes, mostly in the fields of African American history and general U.S. history, most notably, American Negro Slave Revolts (1943), a classic in the field, and the 7-volume Documentary History of the Negro People. He was a prominent figure in U.S. scholarly discourse since the 1930s.
David Hilton

The Exhibition - The Human Factor - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collec... - 2 views

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    Beautiful photographs which catch the dignity of everyday work. Sorry, had a poetic moment. The pics are choice.
David Hilton

Online Documents - 1 views

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    A collection of sources related to many aspects of the Presidency of Franklin Delanor Roosevelt. Delanor - what were his parents thinking?
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    A site with sources related to many aspects of the Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Delano - what were his parents thinking?
David Hilton

Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection - 1 views

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    No information on how much is there, but going on the quality of the other source sites provided by Harvard Libraries it should be quite extensive.
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    The Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection-comprised of manuscript materials and photographs-offers researchers invaluable insight into the Japanese War Crimes Trial -- one of the most important trials of the twentieth century.
David Hilton

Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt - 0 views

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    Written transcripts of the 'fireside chats' of Roosevelt, beginning in 1933 and continuing through to 1944. I wonder if, in 60 years, some history teacher will bookmark a site with the Twitter messages that I receive from Obama? Or maybe this message itself? Trippy.
David Hilton

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1940 - 0 views

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    Excellent source for American culture in the late 30's.
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    These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history.
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