University of Minnesota Library Links

American Memory Archive at the Library of Congress -- The home page for the American Memory Historical Collections from the Library of Congress. American Memory provides free access to historical images, maps, sound recordings, and motion pictures that document the American experience. American Memory offers primary source materials that chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE Image Finder -- digital collections and services; tools for finding what you want.

Hypertexts@ The University of Virginia -- electronic texts in American history, culture, and literature.

Jewish Women's Archive -- The Jewish Women's Archive uncovers, chronicles, and transmits the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.

Labor Arts -- "LABOR ARTS is a virtual museum; we gather, identify and display images of the cultural artifacts of working people and their organizations. Our mission is to present powerful images that help us understand the past and present lives of working people. AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney has urged all international unions to cooperate in locating for display on Labor Arts " 'the treasure trove of cultural objects that have moved workers into action from the very inception of our movement.' "

The Material History of American Religion Project -- Working from 1995 through 2001, the Material History of American Religion Project studied the history of American religion in all its complexity by focusing on material objects and economic themes.

The National Archives Experience

The Triangle Factory Fire -- Online Exhibit from Cornell University's Kheel Center on the Triangle Fire disaster of 1911 - a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of 146 young people in a New York City sweatshop and the resulting investigations and reforms. Original documents, oral histories, photographs presented.

The Valley of the Shadow -- The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War— Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennyslvania. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, population census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters. The Valley project is a University of Virginia research project funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Whitney Museum of American Art -- Modern and contemporary paintings and sculpture. Online galleries, including an extensive interactive tour of the current exhibitions.

Please contact IT Fellow Jenny Gowen with any additional suggestions for links.