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Japanese Immigrants, Internment Camps, and American Loyalty

This source collection focuses on the interviews and stories of first and second-generation Japanese Americans internment during World War II. 

Scan of the Paul Reever engraving titled “The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, March 5, 1770”. British soldiers to the right fire into a crowd of unarmed colonial men.
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The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, March 5, 1770

The events on the night of March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts, became known as the B

Uncle Sam is the teacher of a class filled with personified States, people groups, and regions as the young students.
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School Begins

This source comes from a period sometimes deemed the Age of American Imperialism.

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Source Collection: Evolution of Rights in Saint Domingue

These six primary sources focus on the rights of free and enslaved Black people in Saint Domingue, eventually Haiti, and how they changed over time. These rights would eventually culminate in the Haitian Revolution and the Declaration of Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo.

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Source Collection: Pennsylvania Newspapers React to Refugees from Haitian Revolution

These newspaper articles report on the influx of the white and Black refugees fleeing Haiti during the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804.

Image of Don Francisco de la Arobe in a 1599 portrait of him and his sons.
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Slavery, Law, & Power

This website encourages its users to dissect and reflect on how institutional slavery has shaped the Americas (with specific emphasis on the US) by examining documents from the pre-colonization to post-American Revolution.
Image selected from the “Old Man’s Prayer”
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Women Writers Project

This website is great for exploring the literary value that women provided through the Early Modern Period.
Jewish Life in America is a rich collection of archival materials and primary sources documenting the history of Jewish settlement and life in the US from colonial times through the mid-twentieth century.
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Jewish Life in America

The archive brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, while tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624. Detailed description provided in annotation.
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John Smith's Map of Virginia 1624

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World War II Military Situation Map
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World War II Military Situation Map

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