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COUNTRIES and CULTURES

Latin America Websites (list)

UNITED STATES HISTORY

 

Goldrush

  1. California Hwy 49
  2. Ghost Town Gallery
  3. Index to San Francisco History
  4. Learn California: Gold Rush Web Sites
  5. Goldrush Quiz

Pirates

  1. Pirates History
  2. Legends: Pirates And Privateers
  3. Pirates!
  4. Pirates; Shipwrecks
  5. Pirates; Spanish Main
  6. Pirates; Spanish Main
  7. Pirates; Spanish Main
  8. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  9. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  10. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  11. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  12. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  13. Lafitte, Jean; Pirates
  14. Pirates; Ships; Ships--History; Square-riggers

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Prisons

  1. Villainy Detected!
  2. Inverary Jail – Scotland’s 19th Century Prison
  3. The Dangerous Classes – Prisons
  4. The Underworld – Penal Reform
  5. York Castle prisons
  6. Prisons:  Is This The Best We Can Do?

 

 

    1. The American Experience | Riding the Rails
    2. The American Experience | Surviving the Dust Bowl
    3. Documenting America
    4. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
    5. New Deal Network
    6. Pictures of Women's Suffrage Movement
    7. New Deal Acronyms
    8. Photographs of the Great Depression
    9. Essay on FDR
    10. Cartoons on FDR
    11. Facts about 30's
    12. TVA History
    13. Oral Histories of the 30's
    14. New Deal Photos
    15. 20's and 30's Timeline
    16. The History Place - Dorothea Lange Photos
    17. Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
    18. Great Depression

WORLD HISTORY

INVENTORS

GEOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHIES

CENSUS DATA and GEOSTAT (the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) Resources--home page

CURRENT EVENTS

News Sources
Election Information
  • NARA--The Electoral College (The Office of the Federal Register coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, the Congress, and the American People. They have assembled a variety of information
    and statistics on presidential elections, past and present.)
  • Interactive Map--Electoral College
  • The Federal Election Commission (The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.)

ECONOMICS