Humanities
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- American Memory
- Library of Congress Digital Collections and Services
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Agencies
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- American Folklife Center
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Catalogs
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Archival Research Catalog
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Historic Landmarks Program
- National Gallery of Art
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Institution
- U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Education
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- America's Story from America's Library
- Stories of America's history from the Library of Congress.
- ArtsEdge
- Provides free, standards based, teaching materials in the arts for K-12 students.
- Library of Congress: Educational Resources
- National Archives and Records Administration: Resources for Educators and Students
- Smithsonian Institution Resources for Educators
- U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Education Resources
Exhibits
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- Library of Congress' Exhibits
- National Archives and Records Administration's Online Exhibit Hall
- National Park Service: History and Culture
- Smithsonian Institution Digital Repository
- Smithsonian Institution's Exhibitions
- U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Online Exhibitions
- U. S. Senate: Art and History
Publications
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- American Memory
- Provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience through the The Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program.
- Chronicaling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Library of Congress web site that provides access to newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and provides information about American Newspapers from 1690 the present.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies
- A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
- Library of Congress: Digital Collections
- Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections such as American Historical Newspaper and the Library of Congress Web Archives (Minerva).
- Making of America
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- From Cornell University
- From the University of Michigan
- National Endowment for the Arts Publications
- National Register of Historic Places
- The United States' official list of historic properties.
- Primary Documents in American History
- Provides links to materials digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress.
- Smithsonian Institution Digital Library
- Ccontains digital publications, collections and objects including online exhibitions, digital editions, bibliographies and fact sheets, and finding aids/inventories for collections such as our trade literature and artist files.
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