American Slave Narratives From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief.
BBC News | World War I | The Great War: 80 years on Monday, November 2, 1998 Published at 14:42 GMT The Great War: 80 years on It is 80 years since the armistice silenced the guns of World War I. The war lasted from 1914-18, claimed 10 million lives and forever changed the political map of Europe. Using personal accounts and historical analysis BBC News Online looks back at what became known as "the war to end all wars". Archive radio interviews "There was nothing but brown earth, shell holes and death" Images and newsreelFootage and photographs from the battlefields. Letters home Soldiers revealed their hopes and fears in letters sent from the front. My grandfather's warBBC reporter Andrew Bell retraces his grandfather's movements on the western front.Your stories Email BBC News Online with your family stories or memories of World War I. Back to top | BBC News Home | BBC Homepage | ©
Notable Registrants of the World War I Draft Serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Archives in Morrow has both a Microfilm Research Room and an Archival Research Room. We have extensive microfilm holdings of value for genealogy research and general historical interest. Larger Version The National Archives at Atlanta's new archival facility in Morrow, Georgia We also have about 180,000 cubic feet of archival holdings dating from 1716 to the 1980s, primarily textual records but also maps, photographs, and architectural drawings. 5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260 Phone: 770-968-2100 Fax: 770-968-2547 Email: atlanta.archives@nara.gov * * Please see our Privacy Statement
Vintage Media This section of the website contains archive recordings - audio and video - of politicians, royalty, commanders, battles, songs and speeches from the wartime era. Included are the best known wartime songs, such as It's A Long Way To Tipperary and Pack Up Your Troubles; among video footage is film of Archduke Franz Ferdinand arriving at the town hall in Sarajevo; his assassination shortly after he re-emerged from his reception there on 28 June 1914 plunged much of the world into war the following month. Each recording is titled along with a brief summary together with the year of recording. Both audio and video files are grouped by year. Click here to view present day photographs and film footage of the Western Front battlefields. A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot
A Multimedia History of World War One Battle of Hastings 1066 Introduction Lesson: Class Mural About This section offers Teachers, Parents, Students, and Keith Haring fans alike, resources for enriching, explorative lessons for all ages and fields of study. We have gathered our lessons from education departments at Museums that have hosted Keith Haring exhibitions or have received funding from us for special projects, from some of our staff members and close affiliates of the Keith Haring Foundation, and finally, from visitors just like you, submitting their projects to us (see our link on the right to submit a project). We know how much kids love Keith Haring’s work for his bold, vibrant images expressing hope and exploring identity, and have created this section in an effort to spread knowledge and appreciation for the messages he shared during his lifetime. We hope that you will find this resource to be inspiring and educational. Easy Guide for Research
WWI Websites • 1914-1918-online Languages and the First World War Languages and the First World War is a cross-disciplinary research project exploring change within languages and how languages influenced each other during a period of crisis and conflict. English Words in War-Time, Tracking Language on the Move in WW1 In a series of blogs, the ‘English Words in War-Time’ project tracks a detailed and largely unexamined record of language by Andrew Clark on the Home Front, and the reporting of war in a critical period of social and historical change. Art Art of the First World War “Art of the First World War” is an international digital collection of 100 paintings on the war. Audio The Virtual Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada The Virtual Gramophone hosts a sample of Canadian music from the First World War. 100 Jahre Erster Weltkrieg, 1914/2014, Deutschlandradio
The Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties 1920s - This is a great hotlist........categorized for easy navigation. 1925: The Year in Review - Art in the year of 1925....click on an artist to view a painting and also a description of the painting. American Culture in the Twenties - "The decade of the 1920s is often characterized as a period of American prosperity and optimism. American Economy in the 1920s - "The powerful economy might of America from 1920 to October 1929 is frequently overlooked or simply submerged by the more exciting topics such as Prohibition and the gangsters, the Jazz Age with its crazies, the KKK etc. Biography of the Twenties - You describe the 1920s....did they ROAR, or was it a YAWN? Chicago: The Roaring Twenties - An overview of the 1920s......this is not a brief overview!!! Creating a Magazine for the Roaring Twenties - Classroom project! Events of the 1920s - Learn about the Stock Market Crash and the Scopes Monkey Trial. Flappers in the Roaring Twenties - From About.com. The Flapper!