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=Resources in U.S. History= toc media type="custom" key="5466099" Arranged by topic.

American Revolution
See resources here. Poems of the American Revolution Back to Top

Baseball
Baseball Across a Divided Society--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Back to Top

Civil War
Civil War Music--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Discovering the Civil War--exhibit from the National Archives. Documenting the American South Today in the Civil War - This blog celebrates the Civil War 150 by posting Civil War-era documents from the Rosenbach collection 150 years after they were originally created. Each will be accompanied by a full or partial transcript.from Rosenbach Museum and Library. Disunion - Disunion revisits and reconsiders America's most perilous period -- using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded. A New York Times site. Pennsylvania Civil War Civil War Philadelphia and Its Countryside Women Soldiers in the Civil War Civil War at the Smithsonian Back to Top

Constitution
Constitution--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Back to Top

Exploration
Hispanic Exploration in America--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads Back to Top

Great Depression and the New Deal
America in the 1930's - a University of Virginia resource. Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal By Susan Ware Dust Bowl Migration--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Dust Bowl: An Iconic Catastrophe Education by Design: The Bienes Center's WPA Museum Extension Project Collection FDR's New Deal - Shmoop.com Great Depression resources from the Library of Congress The Great Depression - Shmoop.com The New Deal--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. A New Deal for the Arts - Online exhibit from the National Archives. Using the Web to Explore the Great Depression - A very useful article on web resources covering the Great Depression and the New Deal. Back to Top

Immigration
Immigration Challenges for New Americans--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Back to Top

Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution in the United States--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Back to Top

Innovation and Invention
The Inventive Wright Brothers--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. Back to Top

National Parks
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Scopes Trial
Monkey Trial--from American Experience Monkey Trial -- from UShistory.org Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward Larson--transcript of interview with the author. Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925 Scopes Trial Museum Scopes Trial Home Page from UMKC School of Law Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial --from NPR

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Shays' Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion and the Making of a Nation Shays' Rebellion 1787 -- Springfield Armory National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) Back to Top

Space Race
Google Moon--with special Apollo features. Marshall Space Flight Center History Office NASA Images Back to Top

Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War From American Memory at the Library of Congress. Back to Top

Vietnam
Try a Subject search for " Vietnam War, 1961-1975 " in Destiny. Do a Google News search for "Vietnam War." Then, limit your results to news articles from the time of the conflict by clicking "archives" on the left side of the screen. You can choose a time period relevant to the time of the war, or see what was written in the years following. Vietnam in American History in Video Research in Military Records: Vietnam War--from the National Archives. Search for "Vietnam War " in Global Issues in Context Search for Vietnam War in Grolier Online Search for "Vietnam War" in Oxford Reference Online. Transcripts on the evacuation of Saigon--from the National Archives. Veterans' History Project--Primary Sources from the Library of Congress. See accounts of Vietnam War veterans.

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Watergate
The Watergate Files

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Women's Movements
Discovering American Women's History Online National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 National Women's History Project Women's History Links - links to over 100 fantastic sites chosen by the Historical Text Archive Women's Suffrage--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress. By Popular Demand:Vote for Women's Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 - Library of Congress site

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World War I
When searching Destiny, try subject term "World War, 1914-1918." Hint: when searching for primary sources, use the right terms! When it was happening, people didn't call it "World War I." What did they call it? The Great War -- PBS The Great War Archive [|National World War I Museum] @World War I Document Archive World War I Pathfinder from the Internet Public Library.

World War II
See also: Holocaust Resources When searching Destiny, try subject term " World War , 1939-1945."

Japanese Internment [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Japanese_internment_detainees.jpg width="400" height="294" align="right"]]

 * First, to find books in our collection, try a search in [|Destiny]
 * For a subject search, use "[|Japanese Americans -- Mass Internment, 1942-1945.]"
 * Try a keyword search for "Japanese Internment"
 * Next, search in the following databases:
 * JSTOR
 * American History in Video
 * Global Issues in Context
 * Also, check out these resources from the web:
 * Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese
 * Japanese American Internment During World War II--Primary Source Set from the Library of Congress.
 * The Japanese American Legacy Project
 * Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II-- National Archives website on the Japanese Relocation and Internment During World War II.
 * Exploring Japanese American Internment Using Film and the Internet
 * Try this awesome trick for finding news articles:
 * In Google News Search, search for your topic.
 * On the left side of the screen, under "Any Recent News," click on "Archives."
 * Specify your results to the proper date range to find primary source newspaper articles for your topic.
 * Voila! Newspaper articles! Some will require a fee to view in their entirety, but many won't. Look for the free ones.

Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Oral Histories-- From the Library of Congress Pearl Harbor: The Nation's Immediate Response -- From the Library of Congress

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1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL
The History Files -- Chicago Historical Society World's Columbian Exposition of 1893-- Paul V. Galvin Library, University of Illinois

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