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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. To get started, simply select an activity on the toolbar above.
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Explora
O nline S peech B ank Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
Best of History Web Sites
B est of History Web Sites, created by EdTechTeacher Inc , is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. Best of History Web Sites has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others. Do you need a better education and love history? Earn an online degree in history at an online college . Get a better education on your schedule. 2012 marks EdTechTeacher's 10th Annual Summer Teaching With Technology workshop series .
Churchill and the Great Republic (A Library of Congress Exhibiti
This exhibition and its programming were made possible by the generous support of JOHN W. KLUGE. Additional support was provided by the Annenberg Foundation. The accompanying publication and symposia
This Day in History — History.com — What Happened Today in Histo
On this day in 1839, the initials "O.K." are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for "oll correct," a popular slang misspelling of "all correct" at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another.Insurance maps of Frankfort, Kentucky (sheet 1, index); Sanborn Map Company; 1907; City Atlas Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection Database and Blog. The Map Database has many viewers and the Blog has numerous categories . The historical map collection has over 31,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection
Digital History
We have been restructuring the database and the organization of Digital History for the past three years, and we feel this makeover will significantly improve the usability of our materials. In our new interface, materials are organized by era, so users will easily be able to view many different types of resources for a particular era such as the textbook, images, primary sources, multimedia and teacher materials. Although the links to our textbook, primary sources, and other educational materials will change in the new interface, we believed the benefits significantly outweigh any inconvenience.
On March 20th, PBS will look at the history of the American whaling industry from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
EDSITEment - The Best of the Humanities on the Web
S hooting with cameras rather than guns, photographers act as the “eyes” of the military. Whether taking motion pictures or still photographs, oftentimes serving in the thick of the action, military photographers have captured and produced scores of images for the purposes of strategy and intelligence, mapmaking, and simply to document historic moments. Here are stories of photographers serving in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, who helped to produce some of the most iconic images of these eras. [ read news release ]
Experiencing War: The Korean War, Not Forgotten (Stories from th
U.S. National Park Service Discover History
Discover History The National Park Service's Cultural Resources Programs are dedicated to preserving history, education, and grants. History is everywhere.History of the American West (American Memory, Library of Congre
Search by Keyword | Browse the Subject Index | Name Index Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River.Picturing Women
What roles have these artifacts played in Defining Women's Places in society, how they have been pictured Historically and are pictured Today? Explore These Questions and others of your own imagining on this Web site and in your daily lives, as you recognize the Picturing of Women all around you. More about Picturing Women .The World War II Memorial honors the 16 million who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died, and all who supported the war effort from home. Symbolic of the defining event of the 20th Century, the memorial is a monument to the spirit, sacrifice, and commitment of the American people. The Second World War is the only 20th Century event commemorated on the National Mall’s central axis. Visiting the Memorial