American Presidents: Life
Portraits : http://www.americanpresidents.org
This site offers brief facts about each United States
President.
American Rhetoric : http://www.americanrhetoric.com
This site provides landmark American speeches by political, religious,
and cultural figures captured in print, audio, and audiovisual formats.
The Avalon Project : http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project at Yale University Law School
provides digital documents
from the 17th through the 20th centuries relevant to the fields of Law,
History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy, and Government.
Biography.com : http://www.biography.com
The Biography.com database puts over 20,000 of the
greatest lives, past
and present, at your fingertips.
Bulfinch's Mythology : http://www.bulfinch.org
The full-text version of Thomas Bulfinch's classic work
on mythology.
Catholic Saints : http://saints.catholic.org/stsindex.html
Offers an alphabetical list of Catholic Saints, as well
as information
on patron saints, feastdays, and how the Catholic Church chooses it's
saints.
Congressional Biographical Directory : http://bioguide.congress.gov
Use this site to find biographical information on
members of the United
States Congress from 1774 to the present. Searchable by name,
position,
state, party, year, or congress number.
Douglass : http://douglassarchives.org
Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory,
public address,
and related documents.
Encyclopedia Mythica : http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and
more. It
contains over 6000 definitions of gods and godesses, supernatural
beings,
and legendary creatures from all over the world. Includes an
image
gallery as well as genealogy tables of various dieties.
Browseable
by subject, searchable by keyword.
Eyewitness to History
: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
From Pliny at Pompeii to Roosevelt in Africa, this Web site brings you
descriptions of historical events from the people who experienced them
first-hand.
Find a Grave : http://www.findagrave.com
Find an individual's grave by name, location, or claim
to fame.
HistoryWorld : http://www.historyworld.net
Use HistoryWorld to explore over 400 different history
subjects, and create your own historical timelines.
List of Popes : http://www.knight.org/advent/ppindx.htm
Biographical information on all 265 Popes of the Roman
Catholic Church,
from 32 AD to the present, from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Making of America : http://moa.umdl.umich.edu
Making of America is a digital library of primary
sources in American
social history. It contains the full-text of books published
1800-1925
and journal articles 1830-1902. Each entry provides scanned
images
of the actual pages of the texts. Searchable by keyword or
title.
NARA Archival Research Catalog (ARC) : http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html
ARC is the online catalog of the holdings of the
National Archives and
Records Administration. ARC contains over 124,000 digital copies,
including historical photographs, maps and charts, and textual
records.
Searchable by keyword.
OurDocuments.gov : http://www.ourdocuments.gov
This site profiles 100 milestone historical documents,
compiled by the
National Archives and Records Administration, and drawn primarily from
its nationwide holdings. The documents chronicle United States history
from 1776 to 1965. Includes information for teachers on using
OurDocuments
in the classroom.
The Unbound Bible : http://unbound.biola.edu
The Unbound Bible is a collection of searchable Bibles
consisting of
:
- 10 English versions including the NASB
- Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original
Bible languages)
- 4 ancient versions
- 42 versions in other languages
Veterans History Project : http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/vets-home.html
From the Library of Congress American Folklife Center,
the Veterans
History Project aims to to collect and preserve audio and video-taped
oral
histories, along with documentary materials such as letters, diaries,
maps,
photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those who
served
in support of them. The Project includes World War I, World War
II,
and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars. Search the
"National
Registry Of Service" to see who is included in the project so far, or
click
on "Veteran's Stories" to see and hear a sample of the stories already
collected. Largo Library is a partner in the project.
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