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Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders, facing front

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

Trace Lincoln’s development from a country lawyer to the president who would lead the country through the Civil War through his legal briefs, personal letters, and drafts of speeches.

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Martin Luther King Jr, 1964

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King’s most significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, public statements, published and unpublished writings.

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Map of the Slave Population of the Southern States

Visualizing Emancipation

Trace the fall of slavery during the Civil War with this interactive online map of emancipation, drawn from events described in official military correspondence, newspapers, wartime letters and diaries.

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Cracking the Maya Code

Cracking the Maya Code

Follow the centuries-long quest to decipher ancient Maya hieroglyphs.

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Presidents FDR, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower

The Presidents

Who was the first US President to give a televised national address? Which president kept jelly beans in the Oval Office? Find out at this multimedia look at the American Presidents.

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photograph: Black Sunday dust storm approaching Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935

The Dust Bowl

Explore the causes and consequences of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.

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A foot-race: A figurative portrayal of the presidential race of 1824

A New Nation Votes

Search election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

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Featured Explore Projects

newspaper mastheads: Eastern Utah Advocate, Abilene Reflector, Richmond Dispatch
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922.
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EDSITEment
EDSITEment
Rebuild Xerxes’ bridge over the Hellespont or learn about Edith Wharton’s work as a World War I war correspondent. NEH’s...
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Picturing America
Picturing America
America's history through our nation's art.
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Explore Projects At A Glance
When Worlds Collide
Louisa May Alcott, wood engraving
Hamlet, 1605 copy
Portraits of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, leaders of the "Regulators," 1787
newspaper mastheads: Eastern Utah Advocate, Abilene Reflector, Richmond Dispatch
Dictionary of American Regional English, volume 1, cover
Adolf Hitler presents Hermann Goering with The Falconer (1880) by Hans Makart
Lincoln and his family, painted by S.B. Waugh; engraved by William Sartain.
Bracero History Archive
EDSITEment
Martin Luther King Jr, 1964
George Parkman
Benjamin Frankin, portrait by Joseph Siffred Duplessis
United States Supreme Court building
Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, Whistler
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Cosmopolitan, vol. 51, no. 1
Robert E. Lee, full-length portrait, lithograph
Discovery of Nat Turner, wood engraving
Mapping the Republic of Letters
"The Bamboula" from Century Magazine, 1886
Encyclopedia Iranica
Picturing America
Depiction of Commodore Perry's flagship, the USS Powhatan
The Writing Code
Walt Whitman, illustration from Leaves of Grass
Judy Garland in Till The Clouds Roll By
Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary," The New York American, 1909
Spatializing Photographs Project: reconstruction of Misrach's Desert Cantos
Emperor Jones poster, 1937
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders, facing front
Lunch in insurrecto camp near Juarez--Mexican War
Thurgood Marshall
GeoHistorian Project
Leonard Bernstein
The Papers of the War Department, 1784 to 1800
Walt Whitman
Codex Selden
The Valley of the Shadow Project
Falcons from Audubon's Birds of America
Rock Island locomotive 627, photograph by William Edward Hook
The Jazz Loft Project
Turner-Ingersoll House, aka "The House of the Seven Gables" in Salem, Mass.
American Icons: The Great Gatsby
The 1968 Project
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Divan-I Hafiz, Iran, 1539, Walters Art Museum
Logo from the Anthologize project
Portraits of Abigail and John Adams, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
cover for "After the War Is Over" sheet music from 1917
George Washington, in the French and Indian War, by Charles Willson Peale, 1772
frontispiece of King James Bible. 1611
BackStory with the American History Guys
photo, black and white: Thomas Edison with phonograph, 1870s
A speakeasy
Partners of the Heart
American Icons: Monticello
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Depiction of the Boston Massacre, 1770 engraving
Samuel Gompers
1910 painting by Edward Percy Moran of Battle of New Orleans
Greek warrior
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Jerome Robbins, rehearsal for West Side Story
black and white photo of woman holding matzah ball soup, 1954
A Myrour to lewde men and wymmen [manuscript].
Marlene Dietrich in Stage Fright
I Am A Man poster, 1968, Emerson Graphics
Emma Goldman
Tupperware advertisement, 1959
Into the Deep
Jimmie Rodgers
Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party (1893/1894)
Walt Whitman, 1870
Sitting Bull, 1885
Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
A foot-race: A figurative portrayal of the presidential race of 1824
Donie Bush, Detoit, 1913, black and white photo
Do You Speak American?
Albrecht Dürer woodcut, “Rhinoceros”
Lifeguard teaching boy to swim,Highland Park swimming pool 1951
Freedom Riders
The Buddha's first teaching
Cultural Revolution poster
Blue Grass Group
Jefferson Davis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpina
Man-Midwifery Dissected; or, the Obstetric Family Instructor by John Blunt, 1793
Emancipation, print by Thomas Nast, c.1865
The War
Mark Twain
Time Warp Trio, Napoleon
Percy Julian
PhilaPlace.org
Dolley Madison, by Gilbert Stuart
Dante Alighieri's portrait by Sandro Botticelli, 1495
Prisoners in Siberia, from the Gulag Museum at Perm-36
Appalachian Spring - dancer silhouette on yellow background
Annie Oakley with gun
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars
Henry "Hank" Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, 1934 baseball card
California 49er panning for gold
Students from the St. Rita's School for the Deaf, 1918
Immigrants landing at Ellis Island
Nick Spitzer, host of American Routes
Alexander Hamilton, portrait by John Trumbull, 1806
Map of the Slave Population of the Southern States
Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Mural "Man of Fire" José Clemente Orozco, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Presidents FDR, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower
Panama Canal
Dante holding the Divine Comedy, fresco, Michelino
Homeland Afghanistan
Poster, Col. Wm. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill
Billy Strayhorn
Joe Louis looks for an opening during a boxing match with Max Schmeling, 1936
woodprint: Emancipation Day in South Carolina
Whale fishery: attacking a right whale, Currier & Ives

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