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Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. The images are arranged in collections for ease of browsing.
Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson)
The original manuscript of Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson’s only full-length book, is now available online, courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society. The site enables visitors to see and interact with passages that were previously hidden from view due to the methods Jefferson used to insert changes onto handwritten pages.
Presidential Job Approval Center
Gallup data on presidential job approval ratings from Truman to Obama.

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The White House Library of the early 1960s on LibraryThing
This library was selected for the White House in the early 1960s by Yale librarian emeritus James T. Babb, at the request of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. In his foreword to the published catalog of the library (used to create this LT collection), Babb wrote that the library was “intended to contain books which best represent the history and culture of the United States, works most essential for an understanding of our national experience.” LibraryThing members have recreated the catalogue of the library from a limited-edition “Short-Title List” printed by the White House Historical Society.
Connecticut History Online
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of over 15,000 digital primary sources, together with associated interpretive and educational material.
Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection
This digital collection consists of the 31 volumes of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant (as published by Southern Illinois University Press between 1967 and 2009), along with political cartoons and sheet music donated to the Ulysses S. Grant Association. Other material from the Ulysses S. Grant Collection at the Mississippi State University Libraries will be added in the future.
May 4 Collection: Oral History Project
The May 4 Oral History Project collects, records and provides access to oral history accounts pertaining to the shootings on the Kent State University campus in 1970 and their aftermath. Founded in 1990 by Sandra Perlman Halem, the Project continues to seek first-person narratives and personal reactions to the events of May 4, 1970. It seeks accounts from all viewpoints: members of the Kent community; faculty, alumni, staff and administrators who were on campus that day; National Guardsmen, police, hospital personnel; or other persons whose lives were affected by these historical events. The Oral History Project is conducted by Kent State University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and Archives and follows the standards of the Oral History Association.
Suffragist Oral History Project
In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library’s Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman’s suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. The words of these activist women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future scholarly research and public information via the Internet. Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories: Alice Paul, Sara Bard Field, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Helen Valeska Bary, Jeannette Rankin, Mabel Vernon, and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher.
Kentuckiana Digital Library
The Kentuckiana Digital Library is a gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. Search over 550,000 digital images including historic newspapers, photographs, rare Kentuckiana imprints, Sanborn maps, oral histories, and historic issues of the Daily Racing Form.
Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
Conversations with America is a collection of the interviews Studs Terkel conducted for his books and his radio programme. The site is organised into several collections including: Division Street: America (twentieth century urban life in and around Chicago), Hard Times (Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the United States for his book on the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1973, he selected several interviews that were included in his book to be broadcast in eleven parts on the Studs Terkel Program on WFMT radio. This gallery includes the interviews in those programs.), The Good War (memories of World War II from a perspective of 40 years of after the events.), and Race (interviews with a cross-section of Americans about their views on race).
C-SPAN Video Library (Beta)
The archives of C-SPAN fully available for free online as streaming video – over 160,000 hours of video footage dating back to 1987. There are plans to upload another 10,000 hours of footage from before 1987 soon. 

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You may or may not know that the VHL has a page on delicious.com where we save links to all sorts of websites that we come across which we think might be useful for our readers.   Hopefully this is building up to be a really useful resource for you all, and might point you in the direction of some great sites on the web that could be helpful for your research.   You can search or browse our list, or get notified when we add new sites by subscribing to the RSS feed.   If you follow us on Twitter then you will already have noticed we are posting directly there from delicious when we save things, and I’ve just set up an auto-post system for the blog to do the same thing.   If it works (*crosses fingers*) then you will soon see posts on the blog listing new sites as we save them.   Hope this will prove to be a useful service!   If you come across websites that you think other readers might find helpful to be alerted to, then do let us know and we’ll add them to our page.

By the way, I’ve had a bit of a splurge on adding sites today, so the first auto-post is likely to be somewhat larger than subsequent ones will be!