While I highlighted House Divided’s map collection a few weeks ago, another great resource is the American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection. One can look through over 500 maps from around the world as well as from different eras (15th – 21st century). This collection has lots of interesting maps to check out, such […]
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Dec
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American Geographical Society Library – Digital Map Collection
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Maps1 comment
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Dec
09
John Bull and Uncle Sam
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Lesson Plans“John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations” is an interesting exhibit of selected items from the British Library in London and the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The site is organized around several themes, such as “Exploration and Settlement,” “Common Language, Separate Voices,” “From Abolition to Equal Rights,” and “Popular Culture: […]
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Dec
09
Utah Digital Newspapers, which is available from the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, is another great collection of digital newspapers. The project has over thirty newspapers between 1850 and the 1970s. There are three papers from the Civil War Era, all of which were published in Salt Lake County – Desert […]
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Dec
09
While I have noted other digital historic newspaper projects in previous posts, another great collection is available through Missouri Digital Heritage. The site has three newspapers from the Civil War era – Border Star Newspaper (1858-1860), Liberty Tribune (1846-1848, 1852-1867, 1869-1878, 1880, 1882, and 1883), and the St. Louis Christian Advocate (1857 – 1879). The site […]
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09
The University of Miami Libraries has created a virtual collection of letters written by Calvin Shedd, a carpenter who enlisted in the 7th New Hampshire Volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War. Shedd’s detailed letters provide a unique glimpse of military life at sub-tropical outposts in Key West, Fort Jefferson, and St. Augustine. Images […]
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Dec
09
Immigration to the United States
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & Diaries, Maps, Rare BooksHarvard University’s Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, which is available through their Open Collections Program, is a great resource that offers interesting primary sources that one cannot easily find elsewhere. This collection offers a wide range of material, including photographs, manuscripts, and books and pamphlets. While the focus is on immigration between 1789 and […]
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Dec
09
Nineteenth Century Broadside Collection
Posted by sailerd Published in 19th Century (1840-1880), Images, Letters & DiariesThe Enoch Pratt Free Library, a public library in Baltimore, Maryland, has a number of great digital collections available. While a few have materials related to the Civil War era, one particularly interesting collection is of broadsides published during the 19th century. Over 100 broadsides are available, including a number from the Civil War. As […]
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Dec
09
Crisis at Fort Sumter
Posted by Published in Civil War (1861-1865), Letters & Diaries, Places to VisitTulane University has put together a detailed description of the opening volleys of the Civil War. The site breaks the description down into nine specific parts that provide lengthy summaries as well as biographies while detailing decisions that were made and orders that were given both before and after the battle. The most effective facet […]
