Links from Michael John Neill’s
8 February 2006 Ancestry Daily News article

 

This page is http://www.rootdig.com/americanmemory.html)

 

American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress

(http://memory.loc.gov/).

 

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-1938

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

 

Sam Kilgore Slave Narrative

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mesn&fileName=162/mesn162.db&recNum=259&itemLink=S?ammem/mesnbib:@field(AUTHOR+@od1(Kilgore,+Sam))

 
First Person Narratives of the American South 1860-1920 

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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html

 

The Church in the Southern Black Community

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/csbchome.html

 

 

Maps

 

Civil War Maps 1861-1865

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/

 

Railroad Maps 1828-1900

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html

 

American Revolutionary Era Maps

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html

 

 

Religion

 

Early Virginia Religious Petitions

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/repehtml/repehome.html

 

Amherst County, Virginia Religious Petitions
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/relpet:@field(SUBJ+@od1(Amherst))

 

Sunday School Books: Shaping the Values of Youth in

Nineteenth-Century America

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/miemhtml/svyhome.html

 

Immigration and American Expansion

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Immigration,+American%20Expansion

 

 

Taken from Letters From Illinois, written by Morris Birkbeck and published 1818.

URL:

 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/fawbib:@field(TITLE+@od1(Letters+from+Illinois))

 

The American Memory collection can be browsed by topic at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/

 

The Collection can be searched at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

by using the box in the upper right hand corner.

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