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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.
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Lincoln Papers: Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library - 1 views

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    "Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library highlights two collections at the Library of Congress that illuminate the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth president of the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Papers housed in the Manuscript Division contain approximately 20,000 items including correspondence and papers accumulated primarily during Lincoln's presidency." Awesome.
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American Memory from the Library of Congress - List All Collections - 0 views

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    This is an enormous, diverse collection of images and audio files based around US history. It's a very eclectic collection so tagging was difficult. If you're doing anything on American culture this would probably be helpful.
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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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After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl H... - 0 views

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    Might be interesting as a compare/contrast activity with interviews/media accounts from September 12, 2001?
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    After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)
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American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 1 views

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    This is the main page of the American Memory pages. Most of the sub-pages have been added to the group.
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Documenting America - 0 views

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    Over 160 000 images from 1935 to 1945.
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Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers: Home - 0 views

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    The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to 1920
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    A very large collection covering all aspects of Graham Bell's work.
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California, First Person Narratives: General Collections - 0 views

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    A valuable resource for studies into everyday life in C19th American West.
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    "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.
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By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 - 0 views

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    "The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States." There you go.
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Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Divi... - 0 views

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    A collection of around 90 documents on American history compiled and displayed by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
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Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, ... - 0 views

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    Nearly nine hundred images taken from 1894 to 1896 by the World's Transportation Commission during that last great experimentation with globalisation. And look how that ended...
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American Revolution and The New Nation: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual ... - 3 views

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    A collection of primary documents from the period 1763-1815 in American History.
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The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures - 2 views

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    A presentation of 68 motion pictures recording images of that American adventure in old-style colonialism, the Spanish-American War. Filmed in the US, Cuba and the Philippines.
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America at Work / America at Leisure, 1894-1915 - 0 views

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    Contains 150 early movies showing American past-times and everyday life from the turn of the 20th Century.
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An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera - 0 views

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    "The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history." That's what they reckon.
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    The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras in American history.
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African-American Pamphlet Collection - 0 views

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    "From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics."
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    From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.
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American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page - 0 views

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    A large collection of documents, organised around topics, maintained by the Library of Congress.
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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862 - 0 views

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    Over 700 daguerreotypes (early photos) from the period just before the US Civil War.
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