Selections from an American History Collection
Assembled by Peter Pappas
www.peterpappas.com

 

Bibliography of Additional Sources

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General History Resources:

LOC ad website: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/browse.html

Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

Harpers Magazine http://www.harpweek.com/

Printed Ephemera collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html got to Broadsides 2081

Old Sturbridge Village Docs http://www.osv.org/learning/DocumentList.php?A=LA&T=P

Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History  http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

RSAP  Resources for Research: Periodicals http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eellengarvey/rsapresource1.html

Magazine Art A free visual data base of magazine cover art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Also many other
useful magazine links. http://www.magazineart.org/outsidelinks.html

Thomas Nast http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/nast/


Welcome to Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.net/

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov

National Archives: http://www.archives.gov

WCU's An Adventure of the American Mind http://aam.wcu.edu/newaam/index.asp

Best US History Sites: http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml

Our Documents: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

American Journeys: eyewitness accounts of North American exploration   http://www.americanjourneys.org/

Making of America Books
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The book collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books with 19th century imprints.

Documenting the American South Main Page
Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history,
literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades ...
http://docsouth.unc.edu/

National Park service http://www.cr.nps.gov/

Smithsonian History site http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/

Historical Text archives –  http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

National Center for History in the Schools Web http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/

University of South Florida College of Education: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/sse4313/history.htm

Virginia Center for Digital History: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu

Past Portal http://pastportal.org/menu.htm
Past Portal is a digital library project created by Colonial Williamsburg’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. Visitors to the site can search and view digitized versions of rare books and manuscripts from the foundation’s collections, a selection of reports on the buildings and people of 18th century Williamsburg, and the complete run of the Virginia Gazette. More resources form the library’s special collections will be added over time.

Methods

Thinking Strategies http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

Data on HS Exit Exams http://www.ctredpol.org/highschoolexit/1/exitexam4.pdf

The SCIM-C Historical Inquiry Tutorial
http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/scim/soced/

Ephemera -  The wonderful fairy sisters! will be on exhibition for a few days only, commencing Wednesday, June 12th, at Pythian Hall, (Under Codman Hall,) No. 176 Tremont St., Boston ... [Boston. n. d.].

WWII Goofein Journal http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.00799/

WWII Samuel Boylston Envelopes http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.01848/

Chicago History Museum http://www.chicagohistory.org/AOTM/jta.html

Picturing Modern America 1890 – 1920  http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/

US History 1860 to the Present   http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/history-internet.html

Kodak's Powerful Days in Black and White:  http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/powerfulFrame.shtml

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' ...
.. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery  www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Holsinger Collection:  http://www.lib.Virginia.edu/speccol/collections/holsinger/

Early Advertising Publications: Information about and links to books and pamphlets created by advertising agencies to promote the concept and methods of the advertising industry.

The Branding of America  What are "brand name" products? Why do they endure over the years?

Emergence of Advertising in America Collection: This collection presents more than 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States.

Other possible  lessons could include:

  1. How did climate and geographic variations shape regional life? 3Geo variations

  2. What were the accomplishments of the Lewis and Clark expedition?  

  3. How was the Cotton Gin responsible for the growth of the slave economy?   7cotton gin

  4. How did new technologies, production and geography impact the location and growth of cities? 9cities

  5.  What were the causes of the Dust Bowl and how did it impact farmers, tenants and sharecroppers? 

  6. Opening of the west  -  Impact on the native Americans

 

 

Selections from an American History Collection
Assembled by Peter Pappas
www.peterpappas.com

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