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PLEASE NOTE: These links are provided for your convenience. Abigail Press does not review, control, or take responsibility for the contents of these sites.ReconstructionMaking of Americahttp://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa Library of Congress Duke U.'s Collection on African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction Black History in Harper's Weekly, 1857-1874, uncensored
material on the treatment of blacks and slavery from the early issues
of Harper's Weekly, the largest national newspaper circulation.
Includes a Reconstruction simulation by Eric Rothschild Freedman and Southern Society Project Impeachment of Andrew Johnson The World of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist IndustrializationTsongas Industrial History Center Educational programs about the American Industrial Revolutionhttp://www.uml.edu/tsongas/ The Blackstone Valley: This song, written by Charlie Ball and
performed by Plainfolk, tells the tale of the river that launched
the American Industrial Revolution. Lowell Visitors Bureau: website includes beginnings of the Industrial
Revolution Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline The Edison-Ford Estate, Fort Myers, Florida Baum, Frank L. (includes vital statistics, photograph, bibliography,
and obituary data) City of Passaic, New Jersey - A history of the city from the perspective
of Slavic and Jewish immigrants and their impact upon this city. Ellis Island: Gateway To America A Historical View of U.S. Immigration Policy Race and Racism at the 1886 Knights of Labor Convention Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers 19th century advertising history Immigrant and Ethnic America Trans-Missouri WestWestern Bronzes by David Lemonhttp://www.bronzemaster.com CyberSoup's Wild West Cultural History of New Mexico The American West The Idea of the South: Electronic Resources, list by Alan B. Howard
at U.Va. Bryan, William Jennings Jesse James : Bank and Train Robber Biography of Jesse James The Constitution Community Lesson Plan: inc. The Dawes Act, Maps
of Indian Territory, and Will Rogers Angel Island Immigration Station in Calif., Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882 Women of the West Museum American Women's Diaries American West Heritage Center Legends of the American West - Wyatt Earp & the Gunfighters
- written by consumers at Epinions.com. Along the Chisholm Trail Ghost Town Museum - Pikes Peak Region's gold mining era Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars Progressive EraCartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Erahttp://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan
at the Turn of the Century Immigration History Research Center Walter Rauschenbusch: The Social Gospel Woman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment Margaret Sanger Papers Project Conservation in the Progressive Era The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Online Texts of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
World War ITrenches on the Webhttp://www.worldwar1.com The Soldier's Experience in World War I The Great War Society The First World War The World War I Document Archive Posters from the Food Administration During World War I Photos of the Great War The Lost Poets of World War I Great War Primary Documents Archive World War I Internet Links Roaring TwentiesWoman Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendmenthttp://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html The Volstead Act and Related Prohibition Documents The Red Scare Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy,
1921-1929 The 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald Ku Klux Klan The Scopes Trial Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Harlem Renaissance: New York in the Twenties DepressionFederal Writer's Project Collection: A collection of the Library of Congress 2,900 life history manuscripts from the Folklore Project of the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html Black Thursday - October 24, 1929: Background information and
a collection of headlines surrounding "Black Thursday" "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt:" This site contains letters from children
written to Eleanor Roosevelt and her responses Federal Theatre Project Collection: This site contains original
documents for the WPA Federal Theatre Project, an effort by the
WPA to produce theater events William Gropper, Great Depression Tours: This site provides a
pictorial tour of the Great Depression era through cartoons Great Depression - FDR Library: A Brief overview of the Great
Depression from the FDR Library and Museum Songs of the Great Depression: Lyrics to popular Depression era
songs, including "We're in the Money" and "Brother, Can You Spare
a Dime?" are found at this site 1930s Great Depression Gallery - Headline News Stories, e.g.,
the 1936 General Motors strike and the Civilian Conservation Corps Riding the Rails: Documentary movie about teenage freight-train
riders during the Great Depression Edward Hopper - Cape Cod Afternoon: This picture offers an artist's
view of the Depression Depression Farms: Examines the social and economic effects the
Great Depression had on small farms in the United States Documenting America: Images from the Farm Security Administration
taken by government photographers WebQuest 1930s: Offers access to sites related to 1930s history
and society; features links to biographies, timelines, and events
of the Great Depression World War IIOral historyhttp://www.tankbooks.com/dayone.htm Battles and American Experiences The National Archives site includes Advertisements, Posters, Speeches Afroam.org includes sections on Tuskegee Airmen & other black
units Pictures of Women At War Japanese American Internment The Cold WarThe Cold War Miniseries on CNN: 24 episodes on the origins and development of the Cold War first broadcast in 1999http://www.cnn.com/coldwar The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Offers documents
on the Cold War through the International History Project and its
Virtual Archive The Pentagon Papers International Agreements and Texts: Documents for a variety of
subjects ranging from environmental, nuclear energy, to multicultural
concerns United States Intelligence Flights over the Soviet Union: The
U-2 Incident Avalon Project: Yale's Archive for Documents in Law, History,
and Diplomacy Speech by Secretary of Housing & Urban development, Robert
C. Weaver: "The Negro as an American" (6/13/63) President Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1960) TSUM: Rosa Parks Library and Museum Biography of Pauli Murray Emmett Till The Kennedy-Johnson YearsAvalon Project:Cold War Hubsite http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/coldwar.htm Documents on the presidential campaign of George Wallace in 1964 The History Place: Presentation of overviews regarding events in predominantly American history with documents highlighted throughout the text, including
The Vietnam War http://historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html The Golf of Tonkin Resolution - August 7, 1964 Overview of the events of the War in Vietnam Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear weapons (1968, put
in force in 1970) Report on the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs The SeventiesThe U.S. Space program and the Apollo missionshttp://historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11/index.html The War Powers Act (1973): Passed by Congress restricting the
powers of the President to go to war without the approval of Congress Testimony of Senator J. Kerry regarding the War in Vietnam Presidential Speeches, inc. President Gerald Ford Avalon Project: The Middle Eastern Peace Agreement at Camp David
between Israel and Egypt Historical Archives in American and World History, inc. 20th century
presidential libraries, eyewitness accounts of key historical events,
journals, letters Reagan to ClintonRonald Reagan Siteshttp://www.reagan.utexas.edu/ http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/rwreagan.html White House source on recent presidents President Clinton's Meetings on race relations History of AIDS Iran/Contra House Report 105-830: Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton,
President of the United States, as prepared by the Committee on
Judiciary Document Center including Census Documents on Poverty, Crime &
Terrorism and Impeachment Frontline: The Gulf War Current History - including excellent June 2000 Series on Race
in America Recent and Older Supreme Court Decisions The 1998 Elections
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