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When Nixon Met Elvis
National Archives and Records Administration.
Presents 29 photographs and five documents relating to Elvis Presley’s bizarre December 1970 visit with Richard Nixon in the White House. Features a well-known photograph of the meeting and a five-page letter written from Presley to Nixon requesting an appointment as a federal agent “to be of any service that I can to help The Country out.” “I will be here for as long as it takes to get the credentials of a Federal Agent,” wrote Presley. “I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good.” Also includes background information about Presley’s visit and official White House notes of the encounter. A revealing snapshot into the perceptions of these two public figures concerning the youth culture of their day.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
American Originals
National Archives and Records Administration.
This exhibition presents 14 of the “most significant and compelling documents from the National Archives holdings.” The site furnishes, in whole or part, facsimiles and in some cases transcriptions of the following documents: the July 2, 1776, resolution by the Continental Congress proclaiming independence from Great Britain; George Washington’s first inaugural address; the Louisiana Purchase agreements; a casualty list of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of African-American soldiers who fought in the Civil War; a police blotter that reports the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; an 1868 treaty with the Sioux Indians; a U.S. Navy memorandum reporting the Titanic disaster of 1912; a court verdict concerning gangster Al Capone; Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1939 resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest of the group’s refusal to allow singer Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall because of her race; President Franklin Roosevelt’s speech to the Congress requesting a declaration of war against Japan; a draft press release announcing the United States’s recognition of Israel in 1948, signed by President Harry S. Truman; speech cards used by Presidents John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987 for their historic visits to Berlin; President Richard Nixon’s 1969 diary entry relating to his telephone conversation with Apollo 11 astronauts; and Nixon’s resignation letter of 1974. The materials are accompanied by brief descriptions of 100–200 words, photographs, audio files, and links to related National Archives documents. This site exhibits national relics well, but does not investigate their historical significance and meanings.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
A New Deal for the Arts
National Archives and Records Administration.
This exhibit, divided into five sections, presents artifacts from New Deal art programs, introduced by a 250-word essay. “Rediscovering America” discusses “artistic nationalism” and provides five photographs and five paintings of American scenes. “Celebrating the People” exhibits five paintings and one photo of people at work and two photos and three programs of celebrations of folk culture. In “Work Pays America,” five posters, two paintings, and two photos document and celebrate New Deal programs. The 11 works exhibited in “Activist Arts” make more and less subtle political arguments, including Dorothea Lange’s “Children in a Democracy” and a flier for a Workers’ Alliance meeting. A section on “Useful Arts” exhibits 15 pieces, including informational posters, photos of quilting lessons, and a WPA handcraft wall hanging. The exhibit is easy to navigate, although visitors must return to the home page between each section. Useful for those studying the politics, social messages, and images of the New Deal.
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Website last visited on 2001-05-30.
Panoramic Photographs
National Archives and Records Administration.
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Website last visited on 2001-09-12.
A People at War [World War II]
National Archives and Records Administration.
Drawn primarily from documents at the National Archives’ National Personnel Records Center, this exhibit explores “the contributions of the thousands of Americans, both military and civilian, who served their country during World War II.” Arranged into seven sections—“Prelude to War”; “New Roles”; “Women Who Served”; “The War in the Pacific”; “The War in Europe” “Science Pitches In”; and “The War is Over”—the site presents approximately 60 photographs, editorials, letters, and governmental reports, such as General Benjamin O. Davis’s 1943 report concerning racial discrimination in the military. A 3,000-word background essay narrates the materials. Though lacking in depth and limited in size, the exhibit offers a selection of valuable and interesting materials regarding the war effort.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-16.
California Heritage Collection
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
An impressive archive of more than 30,000 digitally reproduced images “illustrating California’s history and culture,” taken from nearly 200 collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. The site, searchable by keyword, features photographs, sketches, and paintings in six categories: early California missions and mining activities, natural landscapes, Native Americans, San Francisco, World War II and Japanese relocation, and portraits of notable and ordinary Californians from diverse backgrounds. More than 100 images selected from the larger collection are included in an accompanying
California Cornerstones Collection. Includes 158 finding aids, additional links to the Bancroft Library, and six “web-based lesson plans” for using the collection in K-12 classrooms. While the text accompanying each image is limited to artist/photographer, subject, and date, the sheer number of images available makes this a valuable resource for those studying California’s history.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Aizu History Project
University of Aizu.
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
A Visit to Central Park in the Summer of 1863
New York Public Library.
These images will form a part of the future site “Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850–1910.” Ameritech-Award Winner.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860–1920
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and American Memory, Library of Congress.
Features 141 texts relating to the culture of the American south “from the viewpoint of Southerners,” during the latter half of the 19th and beginning decades of the 20th centuries, “ a period of enormous change.” Focusing on the voices of women, blacks, laborers, and Native Americans, the site offers a variety of documents—including ex-slave narratives, travel memoirs, personal accounts and diaries, and autobiographies, such as
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America (1843). Includes some materials published prior to 1860. Provides a 31-title bibliography, with some resources geared toward young readers, and links to 13 related sites. Part of the University of North Carolina’s digital library project,
Documenting the American South, which is described further in its own History Matters entry.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Korean War Project
Korean War Project.
Korean War Project is a private site created by unpaid volunteers and sponsored by individuals and military units. Main attraction is the search engines of Korean War casualties. Can search by name, state, county and city, unit, date of injury by service, date of injury by unit, ethnicity, and territories. Links to Korea Web Weekly, Friends of Korea, and Korean American Scholars, an electronic journal. Also, there are links to information about memorials, DMZ War, government, overview of the war, libraries, armed services, United Nations, locators, awards/medals, genealogy, books, monographs, diaries, and poems, newspapers and periodicals. An essential site for researchers, students, and family members searching for those who have died in combat.
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Website last visited on 1998-09-01.
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490–1920
American Memory, Library of Congress.
Features more than 200 “social dance manuals” and related materials in western dance history, from Burgundian dances of the Late Middle Ages to Ragtime dances in vogue between 1890 and World War I. The site offers a rich selection of manuals—including the rare document,
Les basses danses de Marguerite d’Autriche, published around 1490—as well as histories, theoretical studies, treatises on etiquette, antidance literature, and other items. Designed to “illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another,” the site also provides a 13,000-word introductory essay, “Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection,” which is illustrated with 44 images, 75 video clips demonstrating selected dances from the manuals, and a bibliography of 77 titles. A well-organized presentation that will interest students of dance and of the cultural history of Europe and the U.S.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945–1982
American Memory, Library of Congress.
An examination of the life and work of cowboys (or “buckaroos”) in the ranching community of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada, with a focus on the “family-run” Ninety-Six Ranch, a concern dating back to the mid-19th century. Features 42 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings of the Ranch, and approximately 2,400 photographs documenting “the people, sites, and traditions in the larger community of Paradise Valley, home to persons of Northern Paiute Indian, Anglo-American, Italian, German, Basque, Swiss, and Chinese heritage.” Created for the most part with materials produced during a 1978–1982 ethnographic field research project by the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. Includes a 2,500-word history of the Ninety-Six Ranch; a 15,000-word essay on ranching life by the project director, Howard W. “Rusty” Marshall; an extensive glossary of terms; four maps of the region; and a bibliography consisting of 60 entries. A well-designed site that introduces users to many aspects of ranch life and culture.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2001-07-17.
JFK Assasination Web Page
Michael T. Griffith.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
Kai Tal.
Site sponsored by a nonprofit corporation devoted to anyone interested in the Sixties and especially, the Vietnam War. The reference section is the strength of the site. It includes a bibliography of 84 general books on the Sixties and the Vietnam War and over 2500 works on Martin Luther King. Listed from the Viet Nam Generation Inc. catalog, are 11 titles for courses and anthologies, 13 works on poetry, four works of fiction, four course syllabi on war, eight on the Sixties, and two on popular culture, literature and film. There is also over 60 essays submitted to the Viet Nam Generation site and submitted works by the public. Contains excellent keyword or phrase search engine. Site romanticizes the Sixties but researchers and serious students will be pleased that it gives over 80 links to other sites related to the Sixties and the Vietnam War. Not revised often.
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Website last visited on 1998-09-01.
Images of My War
Ron Heller.
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
A collection of more than 50 documents—including journal and newspaper articles, speeches, papers, manifestoes, essays, press releases, a minute book, organization statements, songs, and poems—concerning the women’s liberation movement, with a focus on U.S. activity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Organized into eight subject headings—General and Theoretical; Medical and Reproductive Rights; Music; Organizations and Activism; Sexuality and Lesbian Feminism; Socialist Feminism; Women of Color; and Women’s Work and Roles—and searchable by keyword. Includes five related links. Selected primarily by Duke University professor Anne Valk, with assistance from Rosalyn Baxandall (SUNY, Old Westbury) and Linda Gordon (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Useful for those studying women’s history and late 20th-century radical movements.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-17.
George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899–1901
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Presents the diary of officer George Percival Scriven (1854–1940), part of the U.S. Army’s occupation of Bohol—a Philippine island—from 1900 to 1902. “The journal was written partly as a personal memoir and partly as a draft of notes for a book that he was planning on writing.” A background essay of 6,000 words on the occupation and one of 350 words on Scriven furnish the context for this valuable document, which is accompanied by 25 photographs from four other Duke University collections. This site also offers six links to related sites. Useful as a description of Philippine life through the eyes of an American soldier and for its first-hand account of the surrender by the President of the Provisional Republic of Bohol to American troops.
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Website last visited on 2003-11-13.
Native-American History Class Projects
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
This site presents six projects, undertaken by Duke University undergraduates, about Native Americans. Topics include the Cherokee Nation; Indians and the Hampton Institute from 1878 to 1923; Texas Indians; the Dakota War; photographs from the 19th century; and the education of American Indians. The projects offer primary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and photographs, and are accompanied by analytical essays and brief bibliographies. The materials are provided by Professor Peter Wood’s Native American History class, in collaboration with Duke University’s Digital Scriptorium, which provides “access to historical documentation through the use of innovative technology and collaborative development projects with Duke University faculty, students, and staff.”
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African-American Women
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Writings of three African-American women of the 19th century are offered in this site. Features scanned images and transcriptions of an 85-page memoir by Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867–1923), a Georgia woman whose parents had been slaves, along with 13 attached pages of newspaper clippings containing short prose writings and poems by Harris; a 565-word letter written in 1857 by a North Carolina slave named Vilet Lester; and four letters written between 1837 and 1838 by Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on an Abingdon, Virginia, plantation. The documents are accompanied by three background essays ranging in length from 300 to 800 words, six photographs, a bibliography of seven titles on American slave women, and eight links to additional resources. Though modest in size, this site contains documents of value for their insights into the lives of women living under slavery and during its aftermath in the South.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia
The Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
A potpourri of 69 images of campaign memorabilia focusing primarily on presidential elections, beginning with a 1796 letter from Supreme Court Justice William Paterson picking John Adams to win against Thomas Jefferson and closing with a Bush/Cheney 2000 button. Includes flags, letters, sheet music, bumper stickers, handbills, buttons, and even a pack of “Stevenson for President” cigarettes. Items are indexed by candidates and parties. Includes a 600-word background essay and links to 13 sites pertaining to current political parties. Though limited in size, this site can be useful to students interested in comparing visual materials from presidential campaigns throughout U.S. history.
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
