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1968 Revisited...
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The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: Freedom's Journal
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
The African Presence in the Americas 1492-1992
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 1943-1954
America 1900
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
America in Caricature 1765-1865: Introduction
The American 1890s: A Chronology
American Folklore
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
American Notes: Travel in America, 1750-1920
American Roots Music
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
American Social Hygiene Posters, 1910-1970
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920
American Women and the World War II Experience
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864
America's Story from America's Library
Ancestors in the Americas
Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record 
Around the World in 72 Days (Nellie Bly)
The Battle over Citizen Kane
The Baton Rouge 1953 Bus Boycott: A Recaptured Past
Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917 (IWW labor dispute)
Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. 1920-1930s
The Booker T. Washington Papers
Born in Slavery; Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Brooklyn Bridge
Brother Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Brown@50: Fulfilling the Promise
Brown v. Board of Education (U. Michigan)
Builders of America: The Jewish Heritage
By the People - For the People: Posters From the WPA
Camp Harmony (Japanese-Americans in WWII internment camp)
Camping with the Sioux; Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918)
The Center of the World; New York: A Documentary Film
The Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair 1886-1887
Chicago in 1900 - A Millennium Bibliography
Chicago Renaissance 1932-1950: A Flowering of Afro-American Culture
The Chicana/Chicano Experience in Arizona
Children of the Camps
The Chinese-American Experience: An Introduction
The Chinese in California 1850-1925
The Church in the Southern Black Community
Civil Rights in Mississippi
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
Civil Rights Oral History Interviews
Coney Island: The Ups and Downs of America's First Amusement Park
Creating American Jews
Crystal City: 1890s in Bowling Green, Ohio
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp... (Japanese-Americans in WWII Internment Camps)
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
The Disability Rights Movement
Documenting the American South
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement
The Donner Party
Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
The Dramas of Haymarket
The Dred Scott Case
Duke Ellington's Washington
Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
Emma Goldman Papers
Empire of the Air
Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting
Eyes of Glory: 200 Years of an Ethnic American Family
Famous Trials
Fatal Flood: A Story of Greed, Power, & Race
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
Florida Heritage Collection
Fly Girls (women pilots in WWII)
Free Speech Movement: Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65
Freedman and Southern Society Project
Freedmen's Bureau Online
Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
From Swastika to Jim Crow
Gay Bears: The Hidden History of the Berkeley Campus
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition: Document Archive
Goin' to Chicago
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It
The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire
The Great Chicago Fire
Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
Hawaii's Last Queen
The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
Hispano Music & Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
A Historical Investigation into the Past: Lizzie Borden/ Fall River Case Study
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
History of the American West 1860-1920
History Through Deaf Eyes
Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center 
The Hollywood Ten
Homecoming...Sometimes I am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay (African American farmers)
Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues: American Music from Back Roads to Big City
Hopi History: The Story of the Alcatraz Prisoners
Household Words: Women Write From and For the Kitchen
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, by Jacob A. Riis
A Huey P. Newton Story
Hurricane of '38
The Iconography of Hope: The 1939-40 New York World's Fair
I Hear America Singing
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
"I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America
James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Jazz Age Chicago: Urban Leisure from 1893 to 1934
Jazz: A History of America's Music
Jewish-American Hall of Fame
Jewish-American History on the Web
Jewish Life in the American West: Generation to Generation
John Brown's Holy War
John Gardner: Uncommon American
Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
Jump, Jim Crow or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make?
Key Ingredients: America by Food
Korean American Digital Archive
Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary
Lost Labor
Love Canal @ 25
Love Canal Connection
The Loyalty Oath Controversy, University of California 1949-1952
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Margaret Sanger and The Woman Rebel
Mark Twain: Known to Everyone - Liked by All
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
May 4, 1970 Collection (Kent State University)
McCarthy Hearings 1953-54 (Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations)
Memories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Miss America
Monkey Trial: An All-out Duel Between Science and Religion
Muslim Life in America
Negro League Baseball
The New Americans 
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939
New Perspectives on the West
New York Underground
North American Slave Narratives
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story
Origins of American Animation
The Other All-Americans (Buffalo Soldiers and Black Cowboys)
Out of the Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America
The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Partners of the Heart: A Black Genius, a White Surgeon, a Blue Baby and a Miracle
People of Color on America's Western Frontier
The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson
The Pill
Progress Made Visible: American World's Fairs and Expositions
The Promise of Gold Mountain: Tucson's Chinese Heritage
Public Enemy #1: The Legendary John Dillinger
Race & Ethnicity
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Red Scare (1918-1921)
Remembering Jim Crow 
Reporting Civil Rights
Rhapsodies in Black
Riding the Rails
The Road from Frederic to Thurgood: Black Baltimore in Transition 1870-1920
Roots in the Sand (Punjabi-Mexican families in California)
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education 
Separate Lives, Broken Dreams
The Shakers
Slavery Era Insurance Registry
Slaves and the Courts: 1740-1860
SNCC 1960-1966: Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Southwest Jewish Archives
Still Home: The Jews of South Philadelphia
Student Activism in the 1930s
"Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Suffragists Oral History Project
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Tangled Roots (Irish & African Americans)
This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1922 
Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection
"To Serve the People:" The Black Panther Party's Struggle for Social Change
Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
The Triangle Factory Fire
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern Challenge
Tulsa Race Riot Photographs
Tupperware: Building an Empire, Bowl by Bowl
UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party
Una Storia Segreta
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest
Violence in the City -- An End or a Beginning? A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, Dec. 2, 1965
Virtual Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Voices of Civil Rights 
"Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
A Warrior in Two Worlds: The Life of Ely Parker
Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote 
White House Tapes: The President Calling
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II
Women in America 1820-1842
Women in the Gold Rush
The World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
The World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Exerience, Aftermath
Zoot Suit Riots: Los Angeles Erupts in Violence
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