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Welcome. Learn More About It! helps you discover ways to use American Memory historical collections from the Library of Congress. Find out where to Read More About It! Check out this season's Feature Presentation.
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Open a window to the past and focus in on individual historical collections. Teachers from across the country reviewed American Memory and generated Learn More About It! ideas for these collections:
African-American Perspectives, 1818-1907
American Leaders Speak, 1918-1920
American Life Histories, 1936-1940
American Variety Stage, 1870-1920
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1842-1862
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America, 1935-1955
Around the World in the 1890s, 1894-1896
Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865
Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
FSA/OWI Color Photographs, 1938-1944
Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, 1897-1916
Inside an American Factory; Westinghouse Works, 1904
Last Days of a President: McKinley and World's Fair, 1901
Life of a City: New York: 1898-1906
Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-present
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920
Votes for Women, 1848-1921
Walt Whitman Notebooks, 1847-1860s
Washington as It Was, 1923-1959
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 The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress has created reading lists for the American Memory historical collections. These Read More About It! lists will open up a wonderful world of books to people of all ages. Visit your local library or bookstore to find these selections, or search the Library of Congress Catalog online.
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Presidents have always had a special relationship with the Library of Congress. All forty-one presidents are represented in American Memory, as well as in other areas of the Library's website. Past Feature Presentations can be found in our archive.
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