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Since digital literacy requires the text to now contain both graphics and sound, you'll need the following links to video, graphic art, sound, and multimedia expressions of knowledge.

Research

• Pius XII Memorial Library: SLU
• St. Louis Area Public Libraries: City, County, and St. Charles
• Internet Public Library
• Internet Public Library A+ Writing-A step by step help for writing a first-class research paper.
• MLA-Style Citation (from Purdue University's OWL)
• The MOBIUS Library System
• Google Scholar (Seema Mukhi absolutely loves Google Scholar)
• How to Avoid Plagiarism (from Steve Moiles' Web Page)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (from Wash U's Writing Center)
• Essay Writing: Using Quotations and Paraphrases
• Columbia University Guide to Online Style (Citation and Documentation

Searching the Internet

• Landmarks Citation Machine
• Library of Congress: Copyright

Primary Sources on the Web

Primary Sources on the Web Library Research: Finding Primary Sources Repositories of Primary Sources EyeWitness to History Eye Witness to History: Index First Person Accounts in History Critically Analyzing Information

General Resources
American Memory American Dreams Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events The World Factbook Homepage A Hypertext of American History I Hear America Singing Historical Calendar Links Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia: good collection of diaries, journals and other primary source documents. There are some interesting descriptions of the contents but no real excerpts. Biographic Information: Famous People: A Hypertext of American History	Early American Literature 1600-1900, Resources for K-12 The Making of America: a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction: Labor History in the United States: Historical Text Archives: Historical Census Browser of the United States: Women in American History: World Historical Documents: History of the Americas Index: History of the U.S. Working Class: Tales of the Early Republic: Mississippi River Links
Primary Sources	Paintings
U. S. Government Archives 18th Century Primary Sources: for example, Anne Putnam's letter Primary Sources on the Web: A list Repository of Primary Sources: U.S. and the World Scanned Images of American Documents: Including the Constititution, etc. Civil War Primary Documents: letters, diaries, journals, art, cartoons, music, etc First Person Narratives of the American South: from the American Memory Page Eyewitness to History:   Maps U.S. Maps: University of Georgia Rare Map Collection Maptech: free maps and charts University of Texas Map Collection Mapquest: how to get there MapBlast: Driving Directions American Literature: Electronic Texts The Rare Book Page Historical Calendar Links The Best of History Web Sites eHistory: Historical Maps: U.S. History Historical Maps-U-Texas Digital History: Historical Maps by Topic Historic US Maps: Boundaries David Rumsey Map Collection: Historical Maps Digital Map Collection: Berkeley Library Animated Boundaries of the US: The American Revolution: Maps Library of Congress: American Memory-Maps	Web Museum Internet School Library Media Center 150 Years of American Painting Portrait Artists Early American Painting National Gallery of American Painting American Portraits of the late 1700s and early 1800s Images of American Political History Hudson River School: good thematic listing Hudson River School Romanticism Web Museum: Romanticism Romanticism: a lecture on the Origins of Romanticism Wikipedia.org Romanticism Art Links Romanticism Individual Artists Gilbert Stuart Online Charles Wilson Peale Thomas Sully \Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Remington: Artists of the American West George Catlin Thomas Cole Asher Durand Frederic Remington   Photography Craig's Daguerreian Registry: The Acknowledged Resources on American Photographers 1839-1860 Matthew Brady and the Civil War Matthew Brady Portraits Matthew Brady Selected Civil War Photographs Images of African Americans from the 19th Century   Photo-Journalism America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from FSA-OWI 1935-145 Walker Evans

IMAGES AND GRAPHICS
Images of Political History Civil War	http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html#graphic http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/links3.htm http://www.treasurenet.com/images/ http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwphotos.html http://www.nps.gov/anti/gallery.htm

Sound	Multimedia
Audio Clips of Poetry Audio Clips of Poetry Poetry Aloud: A directory of poetry readings on the Internet UC Berkley Lectures and Events: Frost Reading his poems T. S. Eliot reading The Wasteland American Rhetoric: Speeches Collections	Museum of the Moving Image Film and Media Archive: Washington University Library The Amazing Picture Machine a searchable index to graphical resources on the Internet. USC Newsfilm Library Video Clips Sound and Movies Historic Films: Stock Footage Library--Film Archives List Moving Image Collection Online Media Resources-UC Berkeley NYPL Digital Gallery

The Story of the Movies The Film Foundation presents rich resources for teaching specific films in the classroom, including To Kill a Mockingbird and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Extensive guides can be printed from the site.

Say It Plain: A Century of Great American Speeches This rich site includes a audio files and texts of speeches by Booker T. Washington, Dick Gregory, and Stokeley Carmichael. The site includes the only known recordings of Marcus Garvey as well as Barbara Jordan's defense of the US Constitution during the impeachment hearings of President Richard Nixon.

Virtual Missouri Organization: A centralized gateway to digitized collections found in archives, libraries, museums, and historical societies in Missouri

Movie Palaces
General Resources	St. Louis
American Picture Palaces Cinema Treasures Cinema Treasures Theater Guide Theatre Styles Radio City Music Hall	The Fabulous Fox Theatre: St. Louis Cinema Treasures: The Fox Theater Classic Theaters in Missouri Tivoli Theater: St. Louis
Related Sites
Buildings  Institute of Historic Buildings Built in America: Historic American Buildings The Continental Building The Continental Building: from The Skyscraper Page	The Grand Center-St. Louis: Art and Life The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
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