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[|The American Civil War Homepage] Gateway to multimedia sources. [|The American Civil War] (National Park Service) [|About.Com 20th Century History Decade by Decade] [|American Cultural History-The Twentieth Century] [|American Heritage] [|American History] [|Famous Trials] [|The Food Timeline] [|Google 20th Century] [|Google News Archive] [|History Animated] [|History Central Major Events of the 20th Century] [|History Channel] [|The People History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Shmoop US History] ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|The Time Warp] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Time Magazine Archive online] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Year by Year 1900-2008]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Photographs
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Copyright Friendly Images and Sounds <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Life Magazine Photos hosted by Google] [|Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress]

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Primary Sources on the Web =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Causes of the Civil War] Documents <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Digital History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive timeline. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Gilder Learning Institute of American History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Promoting the study and love of American History <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|National Archives and Records Administration] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Holds the records of the United States Federal government. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The Library of Congress American Memories Collection] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films and audio recordings. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|American Rhetoric] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> An archive of speeches and movie clips of speeches including the top 100 speeches and speech of the week. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Best of History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Categorized links to hundreds of history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Useful multimedia technologies. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|eHistory] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps. A major emphasis of the site is United States military activities. Maintained by the Department of History, Ohio State University. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Eyewitness to History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The Ancient World to the present. Provides historical context information for every primary document. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|History Matters] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Gateway to web resources as well as a bank of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence for high school and college students and teachers of American history. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Internet Modern History Sourcebook] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Provides an extensive collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Modern European history and American history, as well as in modern Western Civilization and World Cultures. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|PBS History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Directory of history-related broadcast series and programs produced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): American Experience, American Masters, Frontline, Ken Burns's American Stories, NOVA, and P.O.V. Topics include the ancient world, biographies, United States, war and espionage, and the world. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|U.S.History.org] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Revolutionary and Colonial eras of American history. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Talking History] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> An archive of thirty-minute weekly radio programs produced by the Organization of American Historians. Contains a variety of secondary source interviews on a many topics in American history.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Reference Books**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 303.48 ENC Encyclopedia of American social movements, v. 1-4 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 305.8 ENC Encyclopedia of American race riots, v.1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 306.097 SOC Social history of the United States: The 1900s, v. 1-10 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 330.973 AME The American economy: A historical encyclopedia, v. 1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 339.4 POV Poverty in the United States : an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy, v.1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 COL Cold war, v.1-5 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 DAY Day by Day: The twenties 1925-1929, v.1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 EIG The eighties in America v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 FAC The facts on file encyclopedia of the 20th century <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 FIF The fifties in America v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 FOR The forties in America v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 GRE Great events from history. : The 20th century, 1941-1970, 20 v. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 HAM The 1970s <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 JAY The Progressive Era <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 LEO Day by day, the seventies, v.1-2 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 MAG The 1960s <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 NIN The nineties in America, v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 ROL Twentieth-century teen culture by the decades: A reference guide <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 SCH The 1950s <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">REF 909.82 SEV The seventies in America v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 SIX The sixties in America v.1-3 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 Str The roaring twenties <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 THI The thirties in America <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 Tim v.1 The Times in review : 1920-1929 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; white-space: pre;">REF 909.82 Tim v.2 The Times in review : 1930-1939 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 Tim v.3 The Times in review : 1940-1949 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 Tim v.4 The Times in review : 1950-1959 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; white-space: pre;">REF 909.82 Tim v.5 The Times in review : 1960-1969 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 TWE Twentieth-century America : a primary source collection from the Associated Press, v1-10 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> REF 909.82 Woo The 1980s

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