Making of America: - a publicly-accessible
online resource focusing on 19th century American publications - now
contains over 3% of all American imprint monographs published in the
19th century (based on preliminary statistics provided by the Library
of Congress). The majority of these materials were published between
1850 and 1876 and focus on topics ranging from the life and death of
Abraham Lincoln to the latest 19th century household sciences to reflections
on travel to the Western United States. The collection is particularly
strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history,
sociology, religion, and science and technology. MoA offers users the
opportunity to view faithful replicas of the original source materials,
perform full text searches over the entire collection, search within
individual texts, and save searches and develop bibliographies using
the MoA "book bag."
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Meeting of Frontiers - a congressionally
funded project to create a bilingual, English-Russian digital library
that chronicles the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring,
developing and settling their frontiers and the meeting of those frontiers
in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. With these additions, the site
includes approximately 80,000 images from the project partner institutions
in the United States and Russia. These items -- rare books, maps, manuscripts,
photographs, films and sound recordings -- tell the story of the explorers,
fur traders, missionaries, exiles, gold miners and adventurers who peopled
these frontiers and their interactions with the native peoples of Siberia
and the American West.
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