Look for “Title,” change “Contains any word” to “Contains,” and enter the newspaper title. (See a screenshot of the correct settings of a search for the New York Times)
As House Divided tries to include at least one document on every day, the project draws content from a number of different newspapers. While
a complete list of newspapers used on the project is not yet available, you can click on one of the newspaper titles below to see all the articles
John Brown Song
While music is an important part to any documentary, it can be difficult to find free (and legal) music to download. Listed below are a few sites and selected Civil War Era music from their collections. Also check out House Divided’s public domain music and sound effects.
Band Music from the Civil War Era (Library of Congress Music Division)
Civil War Music – Primary Source Set (Library of Congress )
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (University of California – Santa Barbara)
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Collections
Musopen (Non-Profit Organization)
Google Maps allows users to make their own maps, such as this collection from House Divided. This FAQ will review the basic steps to create a map on Google Maps.
You can always learn more about how to use Google Maps through their user guide. Or we have created a short video tutorial that you might find even more effective for learning how to create custom-made history-oriented maps on your own.
| 1. LogIn – If you have a Google account, go to Google Maps and login. If not, you will need to create one in order to make a map. |  |
| 2. Create Map -Look for the “My Maps” link on left side of the page, which is located directly below the Google Maps logo. After clicking on that link, you can create a new map. All of the maps you create will appear here in the left column. |  |
| 3. Privacy Options – If you don’t want your map to be public, select the “unlisted” option for your map. |  |
| 4. Collaborate After you create a map, click on the “Collaborate” to invite other people with Google Accounts to help work on the map. You can learn more about this feature on Google’s user guide. |  |
Users can search House Divided’s Image Collection by one of the 12 image types. While on the image collection page, look for “Type” and select one of the image types from the drop down menu.
Alternatively you can exclude a specific image type from a search. For example, you could search for “Lincoln” and
prevent title page images from appearing in search results. While on the image collection page, Look for “Type” and –
House Divided’s Image Collection includes the following image types –
Images are a critical part of any documentary. Listed below are several sites where you can find images to use in your documentaries.
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– Visitors can quickly search the entire catalog of images or by specific collection. These collections cover a wide variety of topics, including Cartoon Drawings, Civil War Photographs, Fenton Crimean War Photographs, and Wright Brothers Negatives. If available download the image as a TIFF file for best quality. |
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Library of Congress Map Collection – Visitors can search the entire collection or by specific map type (i.e. Cities and Towns ; Discovery and Exploration ; Military Battles and Campaigns ; Transportation and Communication , etc) . |
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery – Over 700,000 images from the New York Public Library’s collections are available through this digital gallery. One can search the entire gallery, by category (Cities & Buildings, Industry & Technology, etc) , or by a specific collection (, Early Landscape Photography of the American West, etc) |
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Flickr Commons Over 50 institutions, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, have added images to this collection. Click here to see a list of institutions that have participated in Flickr Commons. All of the images in this collection have “no known copyright restrictions.” |
Listed below are
several institutions that have Civil War era material available on Flickr Commons.
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Cornell University Library – Political Americana This collection contains a variety of material (including artifacts, photographs, prints, posters) related to US politics. |
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Library of Congress – Abraham Lincoln While only a small set, curators have selected images of Abraham Lincoln from different periods of his life as well as photographs of family members. |
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SMU Central University Libraries – Civil War Photographs . This collection includes cartes-de-visite of Civil War soldiers and generals. The full digital collection is available here. |
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U.S. National Archives – Mathew Brady Civil War Photographs Over 6,000 images from this collection have been digitzed. You can browse the images by subject, including Appomattox, Camp Scenes, Richmond, and Washington, DC. |
A key part of any documentary is the audio component. The following files are some of the sound effects from House Divided’s music library. This post provides an overview of other sites where you can download public domain music and sound effects.
Right click on the link and select save as to download the mp3 file.
A key part of any documentary is the audio component. The following files are part of House Divided’s music library. This post provides an overview of other sites where you can download public domain music.
Right click on the link and select save as to download the mp3 file.
Preservation and Digitization Project at UC Santa Barbara) )
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John Brown Song
While music is an important part to any documentary, it can be difficult to find free (and legal) music to download. Here are a few sites which have public domain music and sounds that you can download for free.
Domain Music
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Musopen allows you to download public domain music. You can browse their collection by composer, performer, instrument, period, and form. Sheet Music is also available. |
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Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, which is available from the Department of Special Collections at the University of California – Santa Barbara, provides free access to public domain music.
You can browse their collection by genre, instruments, and subject. Learn more about “Cylinder Recordings” here. |
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The Recorded Sound Reference Center provides access to some of the Library of Congress’ public domain music. |
Documentaries can be uploaded and shared from a number of different sites. While YouTube is the most popular, several other options are listed below.
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TeacherTubeallows users to upload videos, documents, and photos for free. A FAQ is available here. |
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Vimeo is a video upload site with free basic accounts and a subscription option. Users with a free basic account can upload a limited amount of videos each week (up to 500 MB). If you run into problems uploading a video, check out “Vimeo Basics” in their Help Center. |
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YouTubeis a free service from Google. If you need help uploading a video, check out this guide at YouTube’s Help page. |
is a service from Microsoft that allows you to share up to 25 GB of photos, videos, and other media for free. A FAQ is .
A key part of any documentary is the audio component. While there are lots of programs available , the House Divided project uses the two listed below.
If you look for and download other free editing programs, be careful during the installation process to avoid adding any extra programs or services. While this free audio converter is easy to use, it installs extras (see screenshot) on your computer if you do not uncheck the options during the install.
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Audacity is free, open source program developed by volunteers. An FAQ is available here. CNET gave this audio editor 5/5 stars. |
