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AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American history
An extensive list of primary sources, from Discovery to Present.
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html
American Film Scripts Online
Contains 31 scripts by 53 writers together with detailed, fielded
information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. NOTE:
You'll need to register and have a password to enter.
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/AFSO/
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Pre-Eighteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/pre18.htmEighteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htmNineteenth Century Documents
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/19th.htmTwentieth Century Documents.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htmTwenty-First Century Documents (2001-present)
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/21st.htm
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Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
Early known drafts of Jefferson's famous script.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara4.html
American Memory Timeline: The New Nation
From the Constitution to the policies toward Native Americans
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/newnatn/newnatn.html
Documenting the American South
This electronic text archive from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill contains primary source slavery narratives and first-person narratives
of the South as well as a digitized library of southern literature.
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
Letters from an American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur 
"What then is the American, this new man?..."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/contents.html
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/D/1776-1800/indians/green.htm
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Child Labor in America, 1908-1912
Photographs, and the original photo captions, of Lewis W. Hine
http://historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
The Lowell System: Women in a New Industrial Society
The selections are from the Lowell Offering, a publication
which grew out of the Lowell Experiment's women's literary clubs.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/before.html
The Second Industrial Revolution: Cans, Coal, and Construction
Items from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/corporations/before.html
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Selected Images of Ellis Island and Immigration, ca 1880-1920
Images from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/070_immi.html
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American Memory Timeline: National Expansion and Reform
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/expref/expand.html
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An Ex-Slave Remembers...
Mississippi Black Codes
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/code.html
"The Serfs of Russia . . . were give three acres of land."
In this speech, given many years after Reconstruction ended, Douglass laments
the development of sharecropping in the South, and links it to the failure of
land confiscation in Reconstruction. Sharecropping arose as the freedmen continued
to resist gang labor and conditions resembling plantation conditions. From The
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/code.html
Photo Gallery: Freedmen's Bureau
Collected images with captions and sources.
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~ela/freedmen/img_bib.html
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Turn of the Century America and the Progressive Era
American Memory Timeline: The Progressive Era to the New Era, 1900-1929
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/progress/progress.html
Detroit Publishing Company: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America
Includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well
as about 300 color photolithic prints
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
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Great Depression and The New Deal
American Memory Timeline: The Great Depression and World War II
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html
New Deal Network
This site contains hundreds of primary sources related to the
Depression era and the New Deal, including letters, photographs, posters, political
cartoons, government documents, speeches, and more. You can also find background
information on New Deal programs.
http://newdeal.feri.org/
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Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear
War Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialists
Republics
Signed in Washington, D.C., September 30, 1971. Text and images.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/soviet/sov001.htm
American Memory Timeline: 1945-1968
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/postwar/postwar.html
Indochina - Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam,
July 20, 1954
Text and art images.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/intdip/indoch/inch001.htm
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The Sixties Project
The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties. In 1993, the Sixties Project received a Networked Associate Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia at Charlottesville. IATH graciously hosts this web site and provides us with technical support.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Sixties.html
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