Primary Sources on the Web
The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
This digital collection illuminates specific moments in the history of Ohio's African-Americans and provides an overview of their experiences during the time period 1850 to 1920 in the words of the people that lived them. These sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets.
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/Immigration...The Changing Face of America
This Library of Congress site offers educators extensive links to primary sources from the LOC's online collections.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/nonflash.htmlLibrary of Congress - Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/reed/index.htmlAmerican Memory - The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/fawhome.htmlFrakturWeb
This collection of resources is devoted to the Pennsylvania German folk art form called "fraktur." It features two research projects: an inventory of fraktur artists identified in the secondary literature and a bibliography of published resources on fraktur.
http://www.frakturweb.org/Library of Congress – American Memory: Map Collections
Searchable collection of digitized maps in the public domain from North America, 1544-1996. The collection is grouped into categories: cities, environment, exploration, cultural landscapes, military campaigns, transportation, and general maps. Go to the Collection Connections page for ideas on how to incorporate maps into lesson plans.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.htmlThe Metropolitan Museum of Art – American Quilts and Coverlets
A brief history of American textiles with examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art including some examples of Amish quilt making.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amqc/hd_amqc.htmNational Geographic - Human Migration: The Story of the Cultural Landscape
The National Geographic website offers lesson plans for all grade bands that examine the story of migration using maps and census data. There are links provided to related information and institutions. Of special interest is the Activities page, with Tell a Migration Story…With Photos and Tell a Migration Story…with Maps.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/OPLIN and OHS - The Evolution of Ohio
A collaboration between the Ohio Public Library Information Network and the Ohio Historical Society, this site provides an overview of the migration patterns and population trends of the 11 major territories in Ohio.
http://www.oplin.org/evolution/index.htmlUniversity of Virginia Library - Historical Census Data Browser
This website allows you to search historic census data for information about the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960 and generate that information into maps or tables.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
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