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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
A website from the New York Public Library that commemorates and explores the struggle against slavery and its abolition. Learn about such things as the transatlantic slave trade or family life and social development of slaves.
Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
Learn all about voting and democracy in America from the beginning to present day. This site offers pictures and lots of interesting insight and information on voting in the United States.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
A thousand images dating from the period of slavery. This collection is for anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
Voices From the Days of Slavery
The site has collected audio interviews from 23 former slaves born from 1932 to 1975. The interviews include remarkable accounts, as well as songs from the fields.
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The Art of the Stamp
An exhibit of stamp artwork presented by the National Postal Service and the Smithsonian museum. Look and read about stamps from categories of athletics to history.
Reversing Vandalism
Over 600 torn and sliced books, on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender topics, women’s issues and HIV/AIDS, deemed beyond repair at the San Francisco Public Library are now in this online exhibit in which art the books have been turned into art.