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Reference Links:  History

AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Includes links to documents from the 1400s through the present day in a chronological listing.

American Memory  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
More than seven million digitized items on the history and culture of the U.S., including many archival photos and manuscripts.

Best History Web Sites  www.besthistorysites.net
A directory of annotated and rated sites on world and U.S. history from ancient times through the 20th century.

Country Studies  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.

History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web www.historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies  labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
Text on many topics, images, maps, audio, all related to Medieval times.

Measuring Worth http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/ppowerus/
This site offers a service for calculating worth or comparing the relative worth of things.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  www.ushmm.org/
Information on the museum, Holocaust history and education.

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