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Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
A bilingual, English-Spanish website, Parallel Histories assembles approximately 250 documents relating to the history of Spanish presence in the Americas since the 15th century.![Thumbnail image of Descobrimento do Brasil [Discovery of Brazil] by Oscar Pereira da Silva](/sites/default/files/brazil-thumbnail.jpeg "Thumbnail image of Descobrimento do Brasil [Discovery of Brazil] by Oscar Pereira da Silva")
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United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
The goals of the site are to illuminate Brazilian history, to explore the historical and cultural interactions between Brazil and the United States, and to draw attention to the similarities and differences between these two societies.
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Hanover Historical Texts Project
The project has taken a selection of more than 115 primary texts in the public domain, in English or translated into English, and made them available to anyone with Internet access.
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Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
This site offers 105 documents published between 1772 and 1889 that deal with the legal experiences of slaves and the legal aspects of slavery in the United States and Great Britain.
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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820
The Slave Database offers information on more than 100,000 slaves and the Free Database has records on more than 4,000 slave manumissions.
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Taiwan Documents Project
This site seems most valuable not as an unbiased repository of information, but rather as part of the movement for Taiwanese independence and more generally as a historical case study in the politics of national identity.
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Excerpts from Slave Narratives
This website is unique in the growing number of Internet sources that explore African experiences and slavery. Teachers will find Mintz’s documents invaluable in promoting classroom discussion.
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Wetmore Print Collection
While the responsibility of providing historical context for these images remains with the instructor, the images themselves will delight and puzzle students—and, if they are properly prepared, will provide good insight into the historical periods in question as well.
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Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection
The Byron photographers took as its subjects all manner of social life in and around New York; the collection includes private subjects (family portraits and home photographs), but the bulk of the collection documents public life and public institutions.
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William Livingstone House
William Livingstone House. Constructed in 1893 in the once elegant Brush Park neighborhood, this home, designed by architect Albert Kahn, was moved from its original location by preservationists who hoped to maintain it. It has been since demolished.