The History Place - Child Labor in America - 2 views
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David Hilton on 21 Jul 09A collection of photos of child labour in the USA, mainly I think in the C19th and early C20th.
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Estimates - 7 views
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Information on numbers of slaves transported from the C16th to C19th in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Some of the numbers look a little too precise to be exactly reliable. Interesting though.
JCB_EarlyAmerican - 1 views
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Nearly 7000 images from early America which you can view in a cool viewer that opens up in a new tab/window. Very groovy.
Making of America - 0 views
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Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
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"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
New Offerings from the Otis Historical Archives | n m h m - 0 views
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Has some very large files containing images and documents related to medical history in the US in C19th and C20th.
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.
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans from the 19th Century - 0 views
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An excellent collection of images on African-American or indeed American social history in the C19th.
Accessible Archives - 0 views
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A searchable database of full-text periodicals from the C18th and C19th US.
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Accessible Archives © was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy
Studies in Scarlet - 0 views
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A good site for sources on the OJs and Michael Jacksons of the C19th.
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Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections.
History Guide NG - 2 views
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2292 sources of C19th wisdom. That's a good question for the forum - can we learn from history? I might start a thread... I really need a life.
African American Pamphlets Home Page - 9 views
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A collection of primary sources on African-American history from the early C19th to the beginning of the C20th.
American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850 - 0 views
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"The Mid-Atlantic region of North America - stretching from New York south to Virginia - was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850." Cool.
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The Mid-Atlantic region of North America - stretching from New York south to Virginia - was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850
Topics in Chronicling America - 4 views
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"Chronicling America provides free access to more than a million historic American newspaper pages. Listed here are topics widely covered in the American press of the time. We will be adding more topics on a regular basis."
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Again, thought I'd added this one. Oh well. Well-organised set of collections.
America on the Move | Home Page - 7 views
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"Transportation transformed America. Choose from these three interconnected routes to explore how transportation shaped our lives, landscapes, culture, and communities. "
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.
Slavery Images - 28 views
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The approximately 1,275 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
America in Class Primary Source Collections, Lessons, and Online Seminars. - 10 views
Free primary documents, ready for classroom use, with notes and questions. Perfect for teaching the Common Core standards. http://americainclass.org/primary-sources/ http://americainclass.org/lesso...
History - 0 views
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This seems to update with interesting topics that students might find relevant for research or for classroom activities. I use Bloglines to subscribe to the feeds on sites like this (Google Reader is also good) and that way I only have to go to one site to keep up to date.
Popular Songs in American History - 0 views
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A slightly kooky collection of popular songs from American history. Did people really sing these? Amazing.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 - 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...