• NAACP Online
  
  
• Library of Congress American Legislative Information

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• Edward Bellamy
  
  
• Theodore Dreiser
  
  
• Frederick Douglass
  
  
• W.E.B. DuBois
  
  
• T.S. Eliot
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• William Faulkner
  
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
• Langston Hughes
  
  
• Henry James
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• Jack London
  
  
• Herman Melville
  
  
• Wallace Stevens
  
  
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• Mark Twain
  
  
• Eudora Welty
  
  
• Edith Wharton
  
  
• Walt Whitman

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• African-American Library of Congress
  
  
• New York Public Library - a very professional website that offers information about upcoming events and exhibitions as well as online resources
  
  
• Library of Congress - covers information on all aspects of American History and Literature
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution
  
  
• Getty Museum - online exhibits ranging from Greek and Roman times to modern photography
  
  
• National Museum of American Art - part of the Smithsonian site
  
  
• American Memory - historical collections from the National Digital Library with many great exhibits focusing on American popular culture
  
  
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - includes an ART Imagebase, a growing searchable catalogue (approx. 70,000 images at present) of paintings, drawings, etchings, porcelain, sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles and more
  
  
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  
  
• Museum of Modern Art, New York

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• Early Motion Pictures (1897-1916) - maintained by the Library of Congress. Includes "Inside an American Factory, 1904" and "The Life of A City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906"
  
  
• The Silent Movie Page - the first silent movies page on the web. Information on the films, the stars, the directors and content of silent movies
  
  
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio

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• Emma Goldman - a site detailing Emma Goldman's life as an activist in social and political movements. Includes selected writings

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• Wellesley College Electronic Reference Collection - a comprehensive and reliable source for information ranging from biograhies and dictionaries to quotations, weights and measurements
  
  
• The WWW Virtual Library - a wide-ranging reference source that includes listings in the humanities (e. g., Art, Dance, History, Museums, Philosophy, etc.)
  
  
• My Virtual Reference Desk - news, information, links to many reference works and sources
  
  
• Research-It: your one-stop reference desk - dictionaries, translators of words in foreign languages, and other reference and language tools
  
  
• The Modern English Collection - this heterogeneous collection contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest
  
  
• Documents for the Study of American History: documents that are organized by century (from 15th to 20th), with more specific organization by eras in 20th century

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