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Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship
is an exhibition of the famous scrolls, accompanied by discussion of their historical context. It also features historical information on the Qumran community where they originated... (Library of Congress) |
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Early Virginia Religious Petitions
presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802. The petitions concern such topics as the historic debate over the separation of church and... (Library of Congress) |
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Documenting the American South
is a full-text database of primary resources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Currently, this... (University of North Carolina, supported by Library of Congress) |
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The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
traces how Southern African-Americans experienced Protestant Christianity and transformed it into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches'... (Library of Congress) |
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals
presents digitized books and periodicals published in the U.S. during the 19th century. The collection includes 23 popular magazines and more than 1,500 books that illuminate themes... (Library of Congress) |
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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
is a documentary on this movement within Orthodox Judaism. The Hasidic ideal is to live a hallowed life in which even the most mundane action is sanctified. Hasidim live in... (Alternative Media Information Center, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Madison's Treasures
presents the most significant documents from our fourth President, James Madison. Most relate to two events in which Madison played a key role: the drafting and ratification of the... (Library of Congress) |
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World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
explores the creation, heaven and earth, and the founding of civilizations, all from the viewpoint of 50 cultures. 170 images and stories from Bali, China, Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary... (Library of Congress) |
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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
examines the role religion played in the founding of the American colonies, in the shaping of early American life and politics, and in forming the American Republic... (Library of Congress) |
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TeachingHistory.org
provides lessons, teaching guides, best practices, and other resources for teaching history. See videos on "what is historical thinking," teaching history in elementary school, and... (TeachingHistory.org, supported by Department of Education) |
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African American History Month Federal Resources
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution... (Library of Congress) |
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Religion
offers 40 publications written in the 19th century America related to religion -- prayer books, sermons, hymnals, histories, moral instruction, writings about faith and science... (Library of Congress) |
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America
looks at this area (along the Lehigh River) that became the center of industry and community for Moravians, a Protestant group that migrated to colonial America seeking opportunity and... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
presents 170 Sunday school books published in America between 1815 and 1865. They document the culture of religious instruction of youth during the Antebellum era and illustrate... (Library of Congress) |
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Shaker Historic Trail
presents 15 places that together reveal the legacy of one of the most compelling religious and social movements in American life. Three essays trace the growth of the United Society... (National Park Service) |
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The Amana Colonies
looks at the historic utopian society established in the 1850s along the Iowa River by German-speaking settlers from a religious group known as the Community of True Inspiration. The... (National Park Service) |
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The Joseph Bellamy House: The Great Awakening in Puritan New England
examines the life and times of the Reverend Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a preacher, author, and educator in New England. At the age of 20, Bellamy became the minister in Bethlehem... (National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places) |
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In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
resuscitates the vibrant, moving human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and Native Alaskans during the years 1794 to 1915... (Library of Congress) |
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