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Links to the Past (National Park Service)

http://www.cr.nps.gov

19th century material can be found on the following pages:

Cultural Groups

http://www.cr.nps.gov/cultural.htm

History

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history.htm

Museums

http://www.cr.nps.gov/museums.htm

Learning Subjects

http://www.cr.nps.gov/toolsfor.htm


American Memory (Library of Congress)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

19th century material can be searched by subject, format or chronology:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

Of the individual American Memory collections, the African American Pamphlets, 1824-1909 was especially useful:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html


WWW-VL History Central Catalogue (Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas)

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

The following sub-indices are excellent:

Labour and Business History

http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/

Slavery

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/topical/slavery.html

Urban History

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/topical/urban.html

Women's History

http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivalink.html

Research: Methods and Materials

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/


19th century Primary Sources (Making of America, University of Michigan)

http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

The large collection of 19th century journals and books at this site can be read in scanned images of their original formats.


Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-media Archive (Stephen Railton, University of Virginia)

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc


Women in the 19th century:

Women & Social Movements, 1820-1940 (Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar, SUNY Binghampton)

http://womhist.binghamton.edu/


19th-century Women Writers on the Web (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers)

http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww.html

The E-text library at this site is excellent:

http://www.unl.edu/legacy/Elibrary.html

 

19th-century Music Sites:

California Sheet Music, 1852-1900 (Mary Kay Duggan, University of California, Berkeley)

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html


Historic American Sheet Music (Duke University)

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/


The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (Johns Hopkins University)

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

 
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