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What Are They Reading in College? English Lit 1800s – 1900s

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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What Are They Reading in College? College Basic Skills Course Books

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 – Digital Collections & Articles Aviation

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

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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Railroad History – U.S. Railroad Digital Collections

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 See our Encyclopedia Britannica all volumes pdf 3. Railroad Transportation & Operations Online Book Collection at …

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Vintage Picture Postcards – Old U.S. Postcards – Postcard Collections

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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African-American History Articles – Issues of the Early 20th Century

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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