| Resources at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection | |||||||
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| Links | Titles | Description | |||||
| Sunday school books | Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth Century America | "This collection presents 163 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865, drawn from the collections of Michigan State University Libraries and the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University Libraries. They document the culture of religious instruction of youth in America during the Antebellum era."(1) | |||||
| Traveling in America | American Notes: Traveling in America, 1750-1920 | "Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920."(2) | |||||
| California first person narratives | "California as I Saw It:" First Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 | "The books in this collection are first-person accounts from the time of the Gold Rush and California statehood through the turn of the century. They provide detailed information about localities and people important to the state during the latter half of the nineteenth century, when large numbers of English-speakers flowed into the far West, encountering a variety of Native American groups and the Spanish-speakers who had preceded them to the region."(3) | |||||
| Manuscript Division selected highlights | Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 years | "Included are the papers of presidents, cabinet ministers, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, military officers and diplomats, reformers and political activists, artists and writers, scientists and inventors, and other prominent Americans whose lives reflect our country's evolution."(4) | |||||
| Nineteenth Century periodicals | The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals | "This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. The longest run is for The North American Review, 1815-1900."(5) | |||||
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Notes:
1. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/svyhome.html [Return]
2. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html [Return]
3. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html [Return]
4. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html [Return]
5. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html [Return]
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