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GATEWAY SITES
SITES WITH MULTI TOPICS


Primary Sources
Presidential Papers / Speeches / History
See also Gateway Sites
America in Caricature,1765-1865
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/cartoons.html
Political Cartoons of the Lilly Library; topics include About Caricatures, The Colonial Years 1765-1798, The War of 1812, Abraham Lincoln 1860-1865.


Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/USCartoons/content/GAPECartoons.cfm
Cartoons from the Anti-Trust movement, Anti-Imperialism Movement, Election of 1900, Careers of Teddy Roosevelt and William McKinley.


Chronology of US Historical Documents
http://hamilton.law.ou.edu/hist/
From the University of Oklahoma College of Law; many laws, treaties and inaugural addresses of Presidents.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
From the U.S. Government Printing Office; documents that are legal, legislation, regulatory, or from the Office of the President.

Documents for the Study Of American History
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Extensive collection of documents, writings, letters for the study of American history, 15th century through present.


FDR Cartoon Collection Dtabase
http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/
Thousands of political cartoons from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Collection of 13,000 documents, photographs, sound recordings, and video recordings found at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. Files are separated into 3 diplomatic files: German, British and Vatican.


HarpWeek
http://www.harpweek.com/
Researchers have online access to the "illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and ads of Harper’s Weekly...the only consistent, comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened world-wide in the last half of the nineteenth century."


History Channel: Famous Speeches in History

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches
Audio collection of some of the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century. Categories: Presidential, War, Civil Rights, Sports.

History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials
http://www.hpol.org/
Search the database or browse by title, speaker or date. Covers 1930 to present.

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/ListOfCartoons/ListOfCartoons.htm
28 political cartoons, all centering on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Each features an analysis.


Teaching Politics: Images of American Political History
http://bill.ballpaul.net/iaph/main.php
A collection of over 500 public domain images, originally developed to support teaching of American political thought.


Theodore Roosevelt Political Cartoons
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trcartoonsprompt.html
Teddy Roosevelt's life through cartoons; a 3-minute movie is also available.


TIME.com Photoessays
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
Searchable Photo Essays from 1999 to present; Links to Europe and Asia photo essays.


White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
News, policies, speeches, pictures from history.

Organized and Maintainted by
Ann B. Perham  Ann_Perham@needham.k12.ma.us
School Librarian 
Needham High School, Needham, Massachusetts
Updated: January 2012