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• “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures 1850–1920.
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
  Part of the American Memory exhibit at the Library of Congress.
  
  
• African-American Mosaic.
  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
  A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Includes reproductions of original documents, personal stories, and ex-slave narratives. Part of the Library of Congress online exhibitions collections.
  
  
• Chetro Ketl Great Kiva, Southwestern United States Project.
  http://sipapu.gsu.edu/html/kiva.html
  This site presents a 3-D reconstruction of a Great Kiva, an architectural feature found in many prehistoric Anasazi communities in the Southwestern United States.
  
  
• Harlem: 1900-1940.
  http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem
  Based on an exhibit at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site features photographs, commentary, a timeline and resources.
  
  
• Lower East Side Tenements Virtual Tour.
  http://www.tenement.org/virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html
  Take a virtual tour of 97 Orchard Street--a typical tenement house of nineteenth century New York City.
  
  
• National Civil Rights Museum.
  http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org
  Take a virtual tour of the Civil Rights Movement.
  
  
• We Shall Overcome Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary
  http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/civilrights
  A story of the Civil Rights Movement framed by singling out important places and buildings around the United States, from W.E.B. DuBois homesite in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama.
  
  
• What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II.
  http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
  Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown (R.I.) High School.
  
  
• Women’s History.
  http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
  A guide to the Middle Tennesseee State University (MTSU) Library and Internet Resources. This is a "links" site.
  
  

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