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Feature
site:
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov
This expansive archive of American history and culture features photographs, prints, motion pictures, manuscripts, maps
and sound recordings going back to the mid-1800's from the Library of Congress' Special Collections. Currently this site
includes over 100 collections on subjects ranging from African-American political pamphlets to California folk music to
baseball to Civil War. Most topical sites include special
presentations introducing particular depositories or providing historical context for archival materials. Visitors can
search the current collections separately or all at once by keyword and type of source (photos and prints, documents,
films, sound recordings, or maps). In addition, the Learning Page provides well organized help for using the collections,
including several sample teaching assignments.
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