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The American Experiment: A History of the United States, Second Edition
Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma
Cathy D. Matson, University of Delaware
et al.
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The following sound recordings, video recordings, timelines, maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, political cartoons, broadsides, artwork and other historical images serve as resources designed to assist the students in their understanding of the major themes, topics, and issues addressed in this chapter.

Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680
Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-174?
Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754
Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775
Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783
Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800
Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824
Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820
Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840
Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850
Chapter 12: Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850
Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850
Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860
Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South, 1864-1900
Chapter 17: Conquering the West, 1862-1900
Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900
Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1910
Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916
Chapter 22: The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917
Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920
Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928
Chapter 25: "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938
Chapter 26: War and Society, 1933-1945
Chapter 27: The Cold War, 1945-1952
Chapter 28: The Consumer Society, 1945-1960
Chapter 29: Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968
Chapter 30: The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979
Chapter 31: The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988
Chapter 32: America After the Cold War, 1988-2000
Chapter 33: Epilogue: The Challenges of the New Century




Chapter 1: Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds

Interactive Illustration: Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle’s Ship
Interactive Timeline:  Christopher Columbus
Interactive Timeline: Henry Hudson & Hudson Bay Company
Interactive Timeline: Spanish Conquest
Interactive Map: Spanish Conquistadors
Library of Congress Exhibit: 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
Library of Congress Cartographic Collection: Discovery & Exploration
Map: Early Eastern Native American Tribes and Culture Areas
Maps: Hudson Bay Explorers
Map: Bartolomeu Dias
Map: Christopher Columbus
Maps:  John Cabot
Map:  Vasco da Gama
Map: Ferdinand Magellan
Map: Giovanni da Verrazano
Map:  Francisco Pizarro
Map:  Francisco Coronado
Map:  Juan Cabrillo
Portraits and Illustrations: Hudson Bay Explorers


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Chapter 2: The First Experiments, 1540-1680

Illustration: Arrival of Englishmen in Virginia
Illustration: Arrival of First Europeans in Africa
Illustration: Landing of First Africans in Jamestown
Illustration: Living Africans Thrown Overboard a Slave Ship
Illustration: Plan of a Slave Ship
Illustration: Deck of a Slave Ship
Illustration: Jamestown Fort
Interactive Map: New World Exploration and Settlement
Interactive Timeline: New World Exploration and Settlement
Interactive Timeline: Virginia Colony
Map: Sir Francis Drake's Voyages
Maps: Early North America
Map: Exploration and Settlement, 1675-1800
Map: Jamestown, Founding of
Map: Jamestown
Maps: Jamestown Fort & John Smith's Map of Virginia
Map: St. Augustine, Founding of
Map: St. Augustine
Map: Virginia Colony
National Archives Exhibit: Colonization and Settlement
Portrait: Sir Francis Drake
Painting: First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam
Painting: Mayflower
Portrait: Pocahontas
Portrait: Captain John Smith
QTVR Panorama: Interior of Jamestown Fort
QTVR Panorama: View from Inside Jamestown Fort
Stamp: Spanish Settlement of the Southwest
Timeline: Jamestown
Woodcut Illustration: Interior of a Slave Ship


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Chapter 3: Imperial Connections, 1660-174?

Illustrations: Digital Salem Village
Interactive Family Tree: Benjamin Franklin
Interactive Timeline: Glorious Revolution
Timeline: Thomas Jefferson
Interactive Map: British Colonies
Interactive GIS Map: Salem, 1692
Map: Andover, 1692
Map: British Empire, 1733
Map: Colonial North America
Map: Georgia and Florida, 1763
Map:  New Haven, Connecticut, 1641
Map: Salem Village, 1692
Map:  Salem, 1700
Map:  Town Lots of First Residents of Newark, New Jersey
Painting: Salem Witchcraft Trials
Painting: Trial of John Peter Zenger
Stamp: John & William Bartram
Stamp: Benjamin Franklin
Timeline: South Carolina History
Timeline: Early Georgia History


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Chapter 4: Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754

Advertisement: Runaway Slave
Broadside: Announcing the Sale of Slaves
Broadside: Stowage of British Slave Ship
Coat of Arms: Virginia Company
Cover: Benjamin Banneker's Almanac
Illustration: Church Service
Illustration: Slave Harvesting Rice
Illustration: Slave Trade
Interactive Painting: Daily Life in the Colonies
Library of Congress Exhibit: Religion in Eighteenth-Century America
Library of Congress Broadsides Collection: Slavery
Map: African Origins of Virginia Slaves
Map:  British Colonies in North America
Map: Chesapeake Indentured Servants' Places of Origin
Map:  Colonial Trade Patterns
Map:  New York City Churches
Painting: American Slave Market
Painting: Fort Mose
Painting and Illustrations: The Middle Passage


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Chapter 5: Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775

Broadside: Naval Recruitment
Broadside: Declaration of Independence
Cartoon: Tar and Feathering
Cartoon: Edenton Ladies Tea Party
Journal: Proceedings of the Continental Congress
Print: Destruction of the Statue of King George III
Engraving: Boston Massacre
Map: Lexington and Concord
Illustrations: Continental Congress and Declaration of Independence
Interactive Map: General Washingtons Battle Engagements
Map: Boston
Map: Boston-Concord Area
Map: New England
Map: Philadelphia
Map: Treaty of Paris, 1763
Painting: Boston Tea Party
Painting: Montcalm
Painting: Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Print: Opposition to the Stamp Act
Portrait: Crispus Attucks
Print: Boston Massacre
Print: The Declaration Committee
QTVR Panorama: Independence Hall Declaration Chamber
QTVR Panorama: Independence Hall Judicial Chamber
Timeline: Age of Revolution
Timeline: Declaration of Independence
Timeline: Benjamin Franklin
Timeline: Revolution
Virtual Tour: Carpenter's Hall


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Chapter 6: Winning Independence, 1775-1783

Engraving Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Engraving: Burgoyne Surrender at Saratoga
Engraving: Cornwallis's Surrender at Yorktown
Painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware
Engraving: Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge
Engraving: Washington and Troops at Valley Forge
Flags: American Revolution
Library of Congress Broadsides Collection: American Revolution
Library of Congress Maps and Charts Collection: The American Revolution and Its Era
Map:  Battle of Bunker Hill
Map: Battle of Brandywine
Painting:  Battle of Cowpens
Map:  Battle of Germantown
Map:  Battle of Long Island
Map:  Battle of Saratoga
Map:  Battle of the Fort Sullivan
Map:  Battle of Quebec
Map:  Battle of Trenton
Map:  Battle of Yorktown
Painting: Cornwallis Surrender at Yorktown
Paintings: Signing of the Treaty of Paris
Portraits: American Generals of the Revolution
Portraits: American Patriots
Portraits: Spies of the Revolution
Portraits: British Generals of the Revolution
Portraits: George Washington
Portrait: African-American Revolutionary War Sailor
Portraits: John Paul Jones
Prints and Illustrations: Betsy Ross
Timeline: Age of Revolution
Timeline: Revolutionary War
Virtual Tour: Battle of Brandywine
Virtual Tour: Valley Forge


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Chapter 7: The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800

Bust Portrait: George Washington
Engraving: Federal Hall
Engraving: Washingtons First Inaugural Reception
Painting: Signers of the Constitution
Library of Congress Exhibit: Building the Capitol for a New Nation
Library of Congress Exhibit: Constitutional Convention
Library of Congress Exhibit: Pioneering the Upper Midwest
Library of Congress Exhibit: Religion and the State Governments
Library of Congress Exhibit: Religion and the Federal Government
Library of Congress Exhibit: George Washington Papers
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Abigail Adams
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Martha Washington
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: John Adams
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: George Washington
National Archives Exhibit: The Constitution of the United States
Photo: The Bill of Rights
Portrait: John Adams
Portraits: John Adams
Portraits: Alexander Hamilton
Portraits: James Madison
Portraits: George Washington
Portrait: Phillis Wheatley
Presidential Portrait: John Adams
Presidential Portrait: George Washington
Print: President John Adams and the Display of the United States
Print: President George Washington and the Display of the United States


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Chapter 8: Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824

Bust Portrait: Thomas Jefferson
Diagram: Fort Gadsden
Interactive Timeline: Thomas Jefferson
Interactive Map: Native Americans
Library of Congress Exhibit: Early Virginia Religious Petitions
Library of Congress Exhibit: Thomas Jefferson
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Dolley Madison
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Thomas Jefferson
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: James Madison
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: James Monroe
Map: Corps of Discovery Route
Map: Lewis and Clark Track
Map: North America, 1806
Map: Northern Frontier, 1783-1812
Map: Soulard Map of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi, 1802
Map: Three Forks of the Marias
Map: War of 1812 Niagara River Area
Map: War of 1812 Northern Frontier
Map: War of 1812 Southern Frontier
Map: Whale Drawing Map
Online Exhibit: Lewis and Clark Expedition
Portrait, Full-Length: Thomas Jefferson
Portrait: Thomas Jefferson
Portrait: James Madison
Portrait: James Monroe
Print: Interior of the House of Representatives, 1831
Print: U.S. Capitol, ca. 1800
Print: U.S. Capitol, 1813
Sheet Music: President Madisons March
Timeline: Hamilton-Burr Duel
Timeline: Thomas Jefferson
Timeline: Lewis and Clarks Expedition
White House Portrait: Thomas Jefferson
White House Portrait: Dolley Madison
White House Portrait: James Madison
White House Portrait: James Monroe


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Chapter 9: An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820

Engraving: Bishops of the AME Church
Engraving: Methodist Camp Meeting, 1819
Illustration: Virginia Methodist Camp Meeting, 1809
Library of Congress Exhibit: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
Library of Congress Exhibit: The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals & Books
Lithograph: Kentucky Religious Revival, 1801
Map: Exploration and Settlement, 1800-1820
Map: Exploration and Settlement, 1820-1835
Map: Territorial Growth, 1790
Map: Territorial Growth, 1800
Map: Territorial Growth, 1810
Map: Territorial Growth, 1820
Map: Westward Expansion and Exploration, 1803-1807
Map: Westward Expansion, 1815-1845
Painting: Absalom Jones
Painting: Religious Revival, 1839
Patent Drawing: Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin
Print: Traveling Evangelist Methodist Preacher
Sheet Music: Religious Hymn, 1839


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Chapter 10: Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840

Library of Congress Exhibit: A Century of Lawmaking For a New Nation
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Louisa Catherine Adams
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Rachel Jackson
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Hannah Hoes Van Buren
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: John Quincy Adams
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: William Henry Harrison
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Andrew Jackson
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Martin Van Buren
Map: Native-American Tribes
Map: Territorial Growth, 1830
Mural: Andrew Jacksons First Inauguration
Painting: Andrew Jackson
Painting: Philadelphia, 1844
Painting: The Trail of Tears
Painting: U.S. Capitol, ca. 1830
Portrait, Full-Length: William Henry Harrison
Portrait, Full-Length: Martin Van Buren
Print: Andrew Jacksons First Inauguration
White House Portrait: John Quincy Adams
White House Portrait: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
White House Portrait: William Henry Harrison
White House Portrait: Andrew Jackson
White House Portrait: Martin Van Buren


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Chapter 11: Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850

Broadsides: Library of Congress Collection: Women's Suffrage
Cover: Childrens Book, 1839
Daguerreotype Portrait: Locksmith, ca. 1850
Daguerreotype Portrait: Peddler, ca. 1850
Daguerreotype Portrait: Seamstress, ca. 1850
Engraving: New York Shakers
Illustration: Circuit Preacher
Interactive Map: Donner Party
Interactive Timeline: Joseph Smith
Library of Congress Exhibit: Votes for Women
Library of Congress Exhibit: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures
Lithograph: The Murder of Joseph and Hiram Smith
Map: Mormon Migration to Utah, Part I
Map: Mormon Migration to Utah, Part II
Map: Territorial Growth, 1840
Map: Brigham Youngs Map of the Western United States, 1846
National Archives Exhibit: Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861
Painting, Watercolor: Antebellum Factory
Photograph: First Photographic Portrait
Photograph: Womens Work, ca.1850
Portrait: Robert Owen
Stereoscopic Photographs: Small-Town America
Timeline: Henry David Thoreau
Woodcut Engraving: American Tract Society


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Chapter 12: Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850

Broadside: Anti-Slavery
Cover: Anti-Slavery Publication
Illustrations: Anti-Slavery Almanac
Illustration: Jim Crow
Illustration: Lifetime Certificate of Membership in the American Colonization Society
Illustration: The Slave Chain
Interactive Timeline: African-American Press
Library of Congress Exhibit: American Colonization Collection
Library of Congress Exhibit: African-American Perspectives
Library of Congress Exhibit: From Slavery to Freedom
Map: American Colonization Society Map of Liberia, 1830
Map: American Colonization Society Map of Liberia, 1845
Painting: A Ride for LibertyThe Fugitive Slaves
Photograph: Slave Nursemaid and Child Photographs: Urban Slave Quarters Artifacts
Portrait: Amistad Revolt Leader Joseph Cinquez
Portrait: Frederick Douglass
Portrait: William Lloyd Garrison
Portrait: Henry Highland Garnet
Portrait: A.M.E. Preacher Juliann Jane Tillman
Portrait: Sojourner Truth
Portrait: Harriet Tubman
Sheet Music: Anti-Colonization Song
Virtual Tour: Slave Quarters


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Chapter 13: The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850

Interactive Timeline: Mexican-American War
Library of Congress First Ladies Portrait: Sarah Childress Polk
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: James K. Polk
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Zachary Taylor
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: John Tyler
Map: Battles of Mexico, Line of Operations of the U.S. Army
Map: Battlegrounds
Map: Battlegrounds Around Mexico City
Map: Oregon Trail
Map: Route from Vera Cruz to Mexico City
Map: Siege of Vera Cruz
Map: Texas, 1836
Map: United States, 1844
Map: United States, 1850
Paintings: Sam Chamberlains Collection of Watercolor Paintings
Paintings: Carl Nebels Collection of Battle Prints
Prints and Illustrations: Mexican-American War
Timeline: California Gold Rush, 1848-1850
Timeline: Gold Rush
Timeline: Oregon Trail
Timeline: Texas History
Timeline: U.S. Mexican War
White House Portrait: James K. Polk
White House Portrait: Zachary Taylor
White House Portrait: John Tyler
White House Portrait: Julia Gardiner Tyler


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Chapter 14: The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860

Illustration: James Buchanan's Inauguration Ball
Illustration: James Buchanan's Inauguration Procession
Illustration: John Brown at Harpers Ferry
Illustration: Franklin Pierce's Inauguration
Illustration: Franklin Pierce's Inauguration Ball
Interactive Map: John Brown's Life
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Jane M. Pierce
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: James Buchanan
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Millard Fillmore
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Franklin Pierce
Map: Compromise of 1850
Map: Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
Map: Kansas and Nebraska Territories
Map: Missouri Compromise, 1820
Map: Underground Railroad
Map: United States, 1853
Photograph: James Buchanan's Inauguration
Portrait: John Brown
Portrait: Millard Fillmore
Portrait: Franklin Pierce
Portrait: Dred Scott
QTVR Panorama: Firehouse in Harpers Ferry Where John Brown was Captured
QTVR Panorama: Kennedy Farm Outside Harpers Ferry Where John Brown's Party Gathered
Sound Recording: "John Brown's Body"
Timeline: John Brown's Life
White House Portrait: James Buchanan
White House Portrait: Abigail Powers Fillmore
White House Portrait: Millard Fillmore
White House Portrait: Franklin Pierce


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Chapter 15: Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865

Illustration: Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration
Illustration: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inauguration
Interactive Map: On the Eve of War
Library of Congress Exhibit: Sheet Music About Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
Library of Congress Exhibit: Band Music from the Civil War Era
Library of Congress First Ladies Portrait: Mary Todd Lincoln
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Abraham Lincoln
Map: Civil War, Western Campaign,1861-1865
Map: Civil War, Eastern Theater, 1861
Map: First Battle of Bull Run
Map: Battle of Chancellorsville
Map: Battle of Fredericksburg
Map: Battle of Gettysburg
Map: Battle of the Monitor and Virginia
Map: Battle of Shiloh
Maps: Library of Congress Collection Civil War Maps
Map: Atlanta Campaign
Map: Peninsular Campaign
Map: United States, 1860
Map: Vicksburg Campaign
National Archives Exhibit: The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
Photograph: Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration Ceremony
Photograph: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inauguration Ceremony
Photographs: African-American Civil War Soldiers
Photograph: Company E, Fourth U.S. Colored Infantry
Photographs: Library of Congress Collection Selected Civil War Photographs
Photographs: Medford Historical Society Civil War Collection
Photographs: Civil War Era Technology
Photograph: U.S. Capitol Building, 1861
Print: Abraham Lincoln's Second Inauguration Reception
QTVR Panorama: Civil War Medical Tent
Sound Recordings: Interview of Last Surviving Confederate Veteran
Sound Recordings: Readings of Civil War Soldiers' Accounts
Timeline: Political Party Timeline
Virtual Tour: USS Monitor
White House Portrait: Abraham Lincoln


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Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the New South, 1864-1900

Illustration: Abolition Celebration in Washington, DC, 1866
Illustration: African-American Troops Return Home
Illustration: Andrew Johnson Taking the Oath of Office
Illustration: Exodusters En Route to Kansas
Library of Congress Exhibit: African-American Experience in Ohio
Library of Congress Exhibit: African-American Perspectives
Library of Congress Exhibit: African-American Sheet Music
Library of Congress Exhibit: From Slavery to Freedom
Library of Congress First Ladies Portrait: Julia Dent Grant
Library of Congress First Ladies Portrait: Lucy Ware Web Hayes
Library of Congress First Ladies Portrait: Eliza McCardle Johnson
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Ulysses S. Grant
Library of Congress Presidents Portrait: Rutherford B. Hayes
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Andrew Johnson
Map: African-American Population Distribution, 1890
Map: Territorial Growth, 1870
Map: United States, 1866
National Archives Exhibit: Civil War and Reconstruction
Photograph: Ulysses S. Grant's First Inauguration
Photograph: Ulysses S. Grant's Second Inauguration
Photograph: Rutherford B. Hayes's Inauguration
Sound Recordings: Jubilee Songs
Timeline: Jubilee Singers
White House Portrait: Julia Dent Grant
White House Portrait: Ulysses S. Grant
White House Portrait: Lucy Ware Web Hayes
White House Portrait: Rutherford B. Hayes
White House Portrait: Andrew Johnson
Wood Engraving: Emancipation


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Chapter 17: Conquering the West, 1862-1900

Interactive Diagram: Geology of the Grand Canyon
Interactive Map: Expedition Down the Colorado River
Interactive Map: The West
Timeline: History of the American West, 1800-99
Library of Congress Collection: Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Library of Congress Collection: Photographic History of the American West, 1860-1920
Library of Congress Collection: Photographs of Pacific Northwest Indians
Library of Congress Collection: Railroad Maps
National Archives Exhibit: Alaska Gold Rush
National Archives Exhibit: Maps of the Indian Territory
National Archives Exhibit: Sioux Treaty of 1868
Patent Drawing: Joseph Gliddens Barbed Wire
Photographs: American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Photographs: American West, 1861-1912
Photographs: Prairie Settlements, 1862-1912
Photographs: Native-Americans
Sound Recordings: Omaha Indian Music
Timeline: Farming in the U.S.
Timeline: History of African-American Farming
Timeline: Plains Indians
Timeline: John Wesley Powell
Virtual Tour: Prairie Farmhouse


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Chapter 18: The Industrial Experiment, 1865-1900

Drawings and Photographs: Early Telephones
Illustrations and Photographs: Westinghouse Factories and Workers
Interactive Map: Andrew Carnegie
Interactive Map: The Rockefellers Mark on America
Interactive Timeline: Technological Innovations and Inventions
Library of Congress Collection: Origins of American Animation Sound and Video Recordings
National Archives Exhibit: Development of Industrial United States
Photographs and Blueprints: Alexander Graham Bell Collection
Timeline: The Rockefellers
Timeline and Photographs: Forgotten Inventors
Patent Drawing: Thomas Edisons Electric Lamp
Patent Drawing: Alexander Graham Bells Telephone
Photographs: National Archives Gallery A New Century
QTVR Panorama: Tour of Newport Mansion The Elms
Sound Recordings: Thomas Edison Cylinder and Disc Phonograph Recordings
Video Recordings: Thomas Edison Motion Pictures
Video Recordings: Inside an American Factory, 1904
Video Recordings: Rockefeller Family at Play
Virtual Tour: New Yorks Millionaires Row


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Chapter 19: The New Urban Nation, 1865-1910

Advertisements: Kodak Ads, 1890-1928
Interactive Timeline:  Womens Fashion, 1890-1941
Interactive Map: Influenza Epidemic, 1918
Lantern Slides: American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
Library of Congress Collection: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
Library of Congress Collection: Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Maps: Library of Congress Collection Cities and Towns
Photographs: Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
Photographs: Influenza Epidemic of 1918
Photographs and Illustrations: Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
Photographs and Illustrations: Houdinis Performances
QTVR Panorama: George Eastmans House
Sound Recordings: Turn-of-the-Century Advertisements
Stamp: Frederick Law Olmsted
Timeline: History of Photography
Video Recordings: San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Video Recordings: Life in New York City, 1898-1906
Video Recordings: Houdinis Greatest Escapes
Virtual Tour: Turn-of-the-Century Washington, DC


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Chapter 20: State and Society, 1877-1900

Illustration: Chester Arthur taking the Oath of Office
Illustration: Grover Clevelands First Inauguration
Illustration: Grover Clevelands First Inauguration Celebration
Library of Congress Collection: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920 - Photographs
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Francis Folsom Cleveland
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Chester A. Arthur
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Grover Cleveland
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: James A. Garfield
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Benjamin Harrison
Program: James Garfield's Inaugural Ball
Program: Benjamin Harrison's Inaugural Ball
Photograph: Grover Clevelands First Inauguration
Photograph: Grover Clevelands Second Inauguration
Photograph: James Garfields Inauguration
Photograph: James Garfield taking the Oath of Office
Photograph: Benjamin Harrisons Inauguration
Video Recordings: America at Work, America at Leisure, 1894-1918
Video Recordings: The Pan-American Exposition and Last Days of President McKinley
White House Portrait: Chester A. Arthur
White House Portrait: Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
White House Portrait: Grover Cleveland
White House Portrait: James A. Garfield
White House Portrait: Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
White House Portrait: Benjamin Harrison
White House Portrait: Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison


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Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1889-1916

Interactive Map: America and the World in 1900
Library of Congress Exhibit: The Evolution of the Conservation Movement Photographs and Prints
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Helen Heron Taft
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Theodore Roosevelt
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: William Howard Taft
Maps: Library of Congress Collection Conservation and the Environment
Maps: Library of Congress Collection Mapping the National Parks
National Archives Exhibit: The Emergence of Modern America
National Archives Exhibit: Women's Suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment
Photograph: Child Labor
Photograph: Theodore Roosevelt
Photograph: Theodore Roosevelts Inauguration
Photograph: William Howard Tafts Inauguration
Photograph: William Howard Tafts Inauguration Parade
Political Cartoons: Progressivism and the Election of 1912
Stamp: George Washington Carver
Stamp: Charlie Chaplin
Stamp: Child Labor
Stamp: W.E.B. Du Bois
Stamp: Gibson Girl
Stamp: "The Great Train Robbery"
Stamp: Immigration
Stamp: Kitty Hawk
Stamp: Model T
Stamp: John Muir
Stamp: Pure Food and Drug Act
Stamp: Theodore Roosevelt
Stamp: Jim Thorpe
Stamp: Madam C. J. Walker
Stamp: Worlds Fair, 1904
Timeline: Theodore Roosevelt
Video Recording: Theodore Roosevelts Inaugural Ceremony
Video Recording: Theodore Roosevelts Inauguration
White House Portrait: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
White House Portrait: Theodore Roosevelt
White House Portrait: Helen Heron Taft
White House Portrait: William Howard Taft


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Chapter 22: The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917

Advertisements: Spanish-American War Era
Illustrations and Photographs: Age of Imperialism
Illustrations and Photographs: Spanish-American War
Interactive Timeline: Spanish-American War
Interactive Timeline: U.S.-Mexico Border History
Library of Congress Exhibit: The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Ida Saxton McKinley
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: William McKinley
Map: Spanish American War in the West Indies, 1898
Map: Strategic Map of Our War With Spain, 1898
Newspaper Headlines: Yellow Journalism During the Spanish-American War
New York Public Library Exhibit: A War in Perspective, 1898-1998
Political Cartoons: William McKinley
Political Cartoons: Spanish-American War
Political Cartoons: Theodore Roosevelt and the Image of Empire
Political Cartoons: Spanish-American War Era
Political Cartoons: War and Empire in Fourth of July Cartoons
Photographs: Rough Riders
Photographs: Colorized Photographs of the Philippine-American War
Photograph: William McKinley
Photograph: William McKinleys First Inauguration
Photograph: William McKinleys Second Inauguration
Sheet Music Covers: Spanish-American War
Sound Recording: Aloha Oe by Queen Liliuokalani
Sound Recordings: Spanish-American War Songs
Painting: Maine
Stamp: Panama Canal
Timeline: Queen Liliuokalani
Timeline: Spanish-American War
University of Virginia Health System Exhibit: Yellow Fever and the Reed Commission, 1898-1901
Video Recordings: Panama Canal
Video Recordings: Theodore Roosevelt His Life and Times on Film
Video Recordings: The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Video Recording: William McKinleys Second Inauguration
White House Portrait: Ida Saxton McKinley
White House Portrait: William McKinley


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Chapter 23: Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920

Charts and Graphs: The Great War
Interactive Map: Zoomable Map of the Trenches at Messines
Interactive Map: Zoomable Map of the Somme
Interactive Map: Zoomable Map of the Western Front
Interactive Timeline:  The Great War
Illustration: A Pacifist Viewpoint: Europe 1916
Library of Congress African-American Odyssey Exhibit:World War I and Postwar Society
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Woodrow Wilson
Map: The Cote de Chatillon
Maps:  The Great War
Map: The Eastern Front
Map: The Western Front, 1914-1918
Map: The Western Front, 1918
National Archives Exhibit: African-American Troops during World War I
National Archives Exhibit: The Zimmermann Telegram
Panoramic Photographs: Library of Congress Collection World War I
Photographs: U.S. Army Air Service Involvement in World War I
Photograph: Woodrow Wilsons First Inauguration
Photograph: Woodrow Wilsons Second Inauguration
Postcards: World War I Propaganda
Poster: I Want You for the U.S. Army, 1917
Poster: Salvation Army, 1919
Posters: Collection from the Great War
Posters: National Archives Collection of Food Administration Posters
Sheet Music: World War I
Sound Recordings: American Leaders Speak Recordings from World War I
Sound Recordings: Collection from the Great War
Stamp: Alvin C. York
Stamp: John L. Hines
Stamp: Billy Mitchell
Stamp: Woodrow Wilson
White House Portrait: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
White House Portrait: Woodrow Wilson


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Chapter 24: The New Era, 1920-1928

Art Exhibit: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
Interactive Map: Lindberghs Transatlantic Flight
Interactive Map: Miami Beach in the 1920s
Library of Congress Exhibit: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Library of Congress Exhibit: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
Library of Congress Exhibit: Sigmund Freud Conflict and Culture
Library of Congress Exhibit: Washington As It Was Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Florence Kling Harding
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Lou Henry Hoover
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Calvin Coolidge
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Warren Harding
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Herbert Hoover
National Archives Exhibit: The Volstead Act and Prohibition
Photograph: Calvin Coolidges Inauguration Ceremony
Photograph: Calvin Coolidges Inauguration Parade
Photograph: Warren Hardings Inauguration Ceremony
Photograph: Warren Hardings Inauguration Day
Photograph: Herbert Hoovers Inaugural Ball
Photograph: Herbert Hoovers Inauguration
Photographs: Jazz Artists
Print: Calvin Coolidge Taking the Oath of Office, 1923
Sound Recordings: Various Jazz Artists
Sound Recordings: Speeches from the 1920 Election
Stamp: Nineteenth Amendment
Stamp: American Realism
Stamp: Art Deco Style
Stamp: Flappers
Stamp: Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
Stamp: Gatsby Style
Stamp: Jazz
Stamp: Lindberghs Transatlantic Flight
Stamp: Margaret Mead
Stamp: Prohibition
Stamp: Radio
Stamp: Babe Ruth
Stamp: Stock Market Crash
Timeline: Aviation Milestones
Timeline: Invention of Television
Timeline: Jazz
Exhibit: A. Philip Randolph
Video Recordings: Variety Stage Motion Pictures
Virtual Tour: Life of Ernest Hemingway
White House Portrait: Calvin Coolidge
White House Portrait: Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
White House Portrait: Florence Kling Harding
White House Portrait: Warren Harding
White House Portrait: Herbert Hoover
White House Portrait: Lou Henry Hoover


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Chapter 25: "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938

Interactive Map: Jo DiMaggios 56 Game Streak
Library of Congress African-American Mosaic Exhibit: WPA
Library of Congress African-American Odyssey Exhibit: Depression, New Deal, and World War II
Library of Congress Exhibit: American Variety From Vaudeville to Television
Library of Congress Exhibit: Blondie Comic Strip
Library of Congress First Ladies Portraits: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Library of Congress Presidents Portraits: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Map: The Dust Bowl
Map: Hoover Dam
Map: Depression Era Railroads
National Archives Picturing the Century Exhibit: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Photograph: Franklin D. Roosevelts First Inauguration Ceremony
Photograph: Franklin D. Roosevelts First Inauguration Parade