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Data from the popular free ebook web site Manybooks was used to compile this list of classic books that are still popular among readers in India. All titles have links to free versions (usually several books). Users will need to set up free accounts at Internet Archive to borrow any books not in the public …
The novels and poems below were found at the Open Syllabus website. Open Syllabus has collected lists of books & other readings assigned in over 6 million classes at 4,700 colleges in the U.S. and many other countries. I’ve used the Open Syllabus “Galaxy” visualization to create the list below of books & poems used …
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The books below were found at the Open Syllabus website. Open Syllabus has collected lists of books & other readings assigned in over 6 million classes at 4,700 colleges in the U.S. and many other countries. I’ve used the Open Syllabus “Galaxy” visualization to create the list below of books used in many college “Basic …
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Aviation history articles about the Berlin airlift, Airplane passenger service in 1919, the U.S. Army Air Force in the UK in WW2, the Future of Trans-Atlantic Flight as seen in 1919, and American women in aviation.history. Plus copies of the Wright Brothers’ early patents, issues of an early British aviation magazine, and a link to …
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Characteristics and qualities of a good historian. What makes a good historian? What are important characteristics? What skill sets do they have? You will also find here information about historian occupations, job openings, and links to historians’ professional organizations. Writing of the essential characteristics of a historian, or what makes a good historian, digital historian …
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Some huge collections of books have been added to the Century Past Library; thousands of books organized by subject, published from about the 1970s to 2010. They are part of a collection of 1.3 million books still in copyright that were put online by the Internet Archive. While the majority of the books I chose …
Railroad history digital collections. Links to 5 varied digital collections for railroads in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in the U.S. 1. U.S. Railroad maps, 1828 to 1900 2. Railroad Periodicals; 19th Century through 1930. 90 titles 3. Railroad Transportation & Operations Online Book Collection at Century Past Library …
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Vintage picture postcards, old U.S. postcards. Antique postcards from all U.S. states, Germany, Cuba, and World War I. Free online. 1. 5,700 Old picture postcards of American views from the Detroit Publishing Company. Browse by State or search by location or subject. Old U.S. postcards from about 1905-1924. 2. “Greetings from the Fatherland”: antique postcards …
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Five historical American map collections, free and online, with thousands of maps of the U.S. Some sites also have collections for the rest of the world. 1. Historical Atlases and Maps of U.S. and States For each state, this site provides a variety of vintage maps and atlases, an interactive map showing the evolution of …
The African-American history articles on this page were selected from magazines published from 1915 to 1918, using the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, Vol. 4, 1915-18. The articles describe prominent African-American issues in that time frame, when many African-Americans from the rural south were migrating to northern cities, and when the U.S. participated in World …
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