Lady in a chair reading
Teaching American History
 


Links From Dr. Cashion

American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

America in the 1930s (University of Virginia) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
(click "On Film" and then click "Film Project Index")

Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair 1893 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html

Greatest scenes from movies
http://www.filmsite.org/scenesintro.html

British Pathe, Film and Stills Archives
http://www.britishpathe.com/


Wayback Machine (Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.)
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Advanced Placement US History
http://www.archive.org/details/ap_us_history


Newsfilm Library (University of South Carolina; In an historic 1980 donation, the University of South Carolina was selected by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation to receive a portion of the Fox Movietone News Collection. This gift of internationally important, irreplaceable, and unique newsreel footage was the starting point for what has become one of the most significant academically housed newsfilm libraries in the United States.)
http://www.sc.edu/library/newsfilm/index.html

Spanish-American War Centennial
http://spanamwar.com/

American Memory (Library of Congress, Sp-Am War in Motion Pics)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html

US-Mexican War; Carl Nebel Prints
http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mwart/nebel.htm

US-Mexican War; PBS (In connection with PBS series. Visually well produced) http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/timeline_flash.html

Essay, Wizard of Oz as an Allegory on Populism
http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm

 

 

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