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Exhibit of the Library of Congress

Discover 53,442,810 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Compendium of 1,600 links on black history, business, education and more. Each link is accompanied by a capsule description

Personal artifacts from President Franklin Roosevelt

Good information for geography and social studies reports

U.S. Immigration museum that allows you to reconnect with your own immigrant heritage

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.

The New York State Museum serves the lifelong educational needs of New Yorkers and visitors through its collections, exhibitions, scholarship, programs, media and publications in science, history, anthropology, and art. The Museum explores and expresses New York State’s significant natural and cultural diversity, past and present.

"Smithsonian Education" crafts lessons from the nation's rich stories of cultural treasures. The Smithsonian Institution has launched a new educational web site where students and teachers can go to explore the finding and artifacts of all 16 Smithsonian museums.

Explore our nation's history through our documents, photos, and records.

examines 16 inventions: the submarine, battery radio, cotton gin, reaper, electron microscope, telephone, gramophone, telecommunication cable, snow gauge, ornithopter, airphibian, & others. (LOC)