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Title:
American Journeys
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Description:
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Subjects:
Early American history and exploration (to 1840)
GEM Subjects:
Geographic Coverage:
Time Period:
1400s-1699
1700-1799
1800-1849
Pre-1400
1700-1799
1800-1849
Pre-1400
Objects Represented:
Format:
image/jpeg
image/tiff
image/tiff
Language:
eng
Audience:
General public
K-12 students
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
K-12 students
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
Interaction with Collection:
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Interactive learning objects
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Interactive learning objects
Copyright & IP rights:
Please see http://www.americanjourneys.org/about.asp#rights 
for information about rights, reproductions, and permissions.
for information about rights, reproductions, and permissions.
Size:
18,000 pages
Frequency of additions:
Irregularly
Supplementary Materials:
Teacher and student resources
Historical highlights
Historical highlights
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Contributing Institution:
National History Day
Associated Collections
Complementary Digital Collections:
Title:
Early Canadiana Online
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Hosting Institution:
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions
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Description:
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Hosting Institution:
University of Michigan