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These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings.

This page provides an overview.

This site provides links to primary documents.

The Electronic Text Center is home to a variety of primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers.

Online Archival Collections Rubenstein Library, Duke University. Digitized copies of letters and diaries.

The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction.

Teacher’s Guide for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories.

This site provides information on industry, immigrant and other topics.

To view the lesson plans for the Industrial Revolution click on the By Era tab and then select Rise of Industrial America, 1876 - 1900.

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories.

To view the lesson plans click on the By Era tab and then select the Progressive Era to New Era, 1900 - 1929.

Provides information on prohibition.

The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division.

Teacher’s Guide start here for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.

This site provides a lesson plan for this topic.

The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 provides access to the newspaper provided to military personnel during World War I. This newspaper was written by servicemen for servicemen and was created to improve morale and provide unity within the American forces. Included in the newspaper was news from the home front, poetry, sports and cartoons. Also included were articles written by noted writers such as Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, and Grantland Rice.

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election contains fifty-nine sound recordings of speeches by American leaders. The speeches focus on issues and events surrounding World War I and the presidential election of 1920. Recordings include the seldom heard voices of Calvin Coolidge, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Samuel Gompers, and others.

Teacher’s Guide - start here for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

To view the lesson plans for the Industrial Revolution click on the By Era tab and then select Great Depression and WWII, 1929 - 1945.

Teacher’s Guide - start here for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

Teacher’s Guide - start here for historical context, teaching suggestions, links to online resources, and more.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.

This site provides many resources for students and educators.

Lesson plans for teaching about WWII.

Primary document available online.

The Avalon Project provides access to digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

Provides information on the atomic bomb and the end of World War II.

The focus of the collection is the American experience as reflected in recorded sound.

Cold War documents available via the Avalon Project.

Primary documents about the Cold War and the Marshall Plan available via the National Archive.

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 1991 with the generous support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

This is a series of reports, printed exactly as they were prepared by General MacArthur's staff at the Tokyo headquarters of the Allied occupational force (with the exception of a foreword and indices).

Korean War documents available online via the Harry S. Truman Library.

Primary documents concerning postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) available via the National Archives.

Learn about the Freedom Riders, a courageous band of African American and white civil rights activists who in 1961 rode together on buses throughout the American South to challenge segregation.

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December 1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activism and educational reform that can be traced throughout the country and the world down to the present.

Welcome to the history of the sixties. Here you can find primary and secondary sources on the Internet to supplement your library research. Each topic has links to primary sources, documentary collections, virtual exhibits, interviews, bibiographies, and historiographical essays.

Biographical information as well as primary documents from his presidency.

The Vietnam Archive mission is to collect and preserve the documentary record of the Vietnam War.

Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.

Founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features the more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Each year the Institute offers support and resources to tens of thousands of teachers, and through them enhances the education of more than a million students. The Institute’s programs have been recognized by awards from the White House, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Organization of American Historians.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, the National Museum of American History provided visitors with a close-up view of more than 50 objects recovered from the three sites attacked that fateful day—New York, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pa.—as well as recent acquisitions that relate to how American lives have changed since then.

September 11, 2001, began like a typical Tuesday at the U.S. House of Representatives. Some Members spoke on the floor; others met with the leadership. Elsewhere on the Hill that morning, people had started talking about a plane crash in New York City. Then American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, and many wondered if the U.S. Capitol was next. Amid the confusion and fear, Capitol Hill began evacuating, and the House formally recessed at 9:53 a.m. These interviews provide a detailed re-telling of 9/11 from the perspective of staff and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.