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Below are links to help you uncover the past.

• Back to School: USA.gov
  The federal government's Web portal, which has posted a collection of Web sites with resources for students, parents, and educators.
  
  
• Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
  Information on various aspects of government from the different branches, to how laws are made. Includes list of government websites.
  
  
• "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations
  A collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. From the Library of Congress American Memory project.
  
  
• The Living Room Candidate
  Contains numerous video clips from the past 14 presidential campaigns to prove just how influential commercials can be. Search by issue, type of advertisement, or election year.
  
  
• Political Database of the Americas
  Source of info on elections, political parties, and consitutions in the Americas. From Georgetown University.
  
  
• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
  Portal to the presidential libraries and their digitized collecitons from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton.
  
  
• Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides
  Compilation of digital materials available Library of Congress website. Includes links to external Web sites and a bibliography containing selected works for both a general audience and younger readers. Updated regularly. As of early 2009, guides are available for 20 presidents, the most recent being Franklin D. Roosevelt. From the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Vote411.org
  One-stop source for election-related questions; voting options, election dates, candidates, polling places, registratoin deadlines, etc.
  
  
• The White House

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• Helpful Humanities Resources
  Provides links to various online resources in the Humanities, including the Arts, Literature, Politics & Political Science, Anthrolpology, and Religious Studies.
  
  
• Historical Text Archive
  Offers high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links for a broad range of historical subjects.
  
  
• HistoryNet
  Includes great links to information on the Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
  
  
• Library of Congress
  
  
• National Archives and Records Administration
  
  
• New York Times Photos & Graphics
  The images that were "fit to print" from the New York Times in a searchable database.
  
  
• Shmoop.com: US History
  Provides study materials for selected U.S. history topics. Includes summaries, study questions, website links, and related material.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution
  
  
• US States
  Website companion to the History Channel series. Fun tidbits on each state, games, and more.

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• New Perspectives on the West
  Companions website to Ken Burns' documentary "The West" on westward expansion. Includes transcripts; interactive timeline; information on people, places, and events; primary sources, and more.
  
  
• The Shakers
  Companion website to the Ken Burns' documentary. Includes timeline, online resources, and more.
  
  
• The U.S. Mexican War: Interactive Timeline
  Accessible in Spanish and English. Presents events of US-Mexican War geographically and historically.

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• The American Civil War Homepage
  Offers numerous links to online resources about the Civil War.
  
  
• Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War — Central Intelligence Agency
  
  
• The Civil War
  Website companion to the Ken Burns' documentary. Includes archival images, maps, biographies, primary sources, and more.
  
  
• CivilWar@Smithsonian
  Examination of the Civil War through the collections of the National Portrait Gallery.
  
  
• Civil War Medicine
  Medical aspects of the war. Includes primary sources.
  
  
• EyeWitness to the American Civil War
  History through the eyes of those who lived it.
  
  
• The Gettysburg National Military Park Virtual Tour
  
  
• History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
  Full text of the book by Pulitzer Prize winning author James Ford Rhodes.
  
  
• Home of the American Civil War
  Provides information on multiple aspects of the war, from battles to medicine to strategy and tactics.
  
  
• Lincoln and his Circle
  The project seeks to digitize and make available the letters to, from, and about Abraham Lincoln that are held in the collections of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester.
  
  
• Selected Civil War Photographs
  From the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.

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• The Great Depression
  Answers to frequently asked questions. Plus links to information on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and World War II.
  
  
• Remembering Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr.
  Photos of his family, assassination, and funeral from the Cleveland Public Library's Photograph Collection.
  
  
• Say It Plain - American RadioWorks
  Audio clips of speeches to help understand the progression of the Civil Rights Movement. Speeches span from Booker T. Washington's 1895 race relations address presented to an all-white Southern audience to Barack Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Includes transcripts.
  
  
• Triangle Factory Fire
  Online exhibit of documents, oral histories, photos, etc. providing info about working conditions and labor reforms before and after the famous fire, plus accounts of the event itself.

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• Global Connections: The Middle East
  Learn more about events in the Middle East. Focuses on geography, history, and the politics of region.
  
  
• Sacred Contexts
  From the British Library. Multimedia exploration of religion. Shows similarities among the Abrahamic faiths. Narrated stories from 6 of the world's major religions, links to 78 online religious texts with high-res images, and an interactive map of the books' origins.
  
  
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
  Info on almost 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

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