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Find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. Materials may be used for homework assignments, personal inquiry, research papers, and National History Day-type projects focused on African American history in the U.S.
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Discover your family's military past. Find service records, casualties, and memorials from wars since the American Revolution. Search sources also include U.S. Federal Census records, Dawes enrollment cards, homestead records, naturalizations, and international military records.
Search the digital US Census records from 1790-1950 or the full-text of 25,000 family and local history books in Heritage Quest.
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Search and browse the scanned pages of more than 4,000 historical newspapers dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Newspapers.com contains full runs and portions of well-known, regional, and state titles as well as small local newspapers in the U.S. and other countries.
Search this index for citations from the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from the years 1890 through 1982.
Find primary documents, reference books, journal articles, and scholarly analysis on periods and events in our history. Teachers and parents may find the Curriculum Standards and Educator Resources helpful.
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