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Hispanic Americans

"At that time, for immigration you needed an affidavit of support; it was very little, now it's more strict." ~ Ralph Soria discusses his immigration to the Mainland from Puerto Rico in the 1950s.

Visit the Hispanic Americans Community Center to discover historical primary resources from the Library of Congress. Don’t miss the “ready to use” primary source set on "Hispanic Exploration in America."

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Asian Pacific Americans
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Japanese Internment Primary Source Set | Chinese and Westward Expansion
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Baseball-As American as Apple Pie
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Baseball Across a Divided Society - Primary Source Set | Baseball and Jackie Robinson | Baseball Cards, 1887-1914
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Prosperity and Thrift | Emergence of Advertising in America
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African American history, the Civil Rights movement
Jim Crow in America Primary Source Set | The Civil Rights Era | Civil Rights | From Slavery to Civil Rights
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Civil War Music Primary Source Set | Using the American Memory Timeline to Learn about Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 | The Gettysburg Address | Selected Civil War Photographs | Does the Camera Ever Lie?
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Resources about the Early America era in American History.
Thanksgiving Primary Source Set | American Memory Timeline: Colonial Settlement, 1600s-1763 | The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London
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Elections - the American Way | Oliphant's Anthem
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Environment
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  Conservation and Environment Maps | Language of the Land - Journeys into Literary America
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Exploration and Explorers
Resources about exploration and explorers from the Library of Congress Web sites.
  Hispanic Exploration in America Primary Source Set | 1492 An Ongoing Voyage | Map Collections: Discovery and Exploration | Zoom into Maps: Exploration and Discovery
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From Fantasy to Flight
Man's dreams, experiments and inventions for flying
The Inventive Wright Brothers - Primary Source Set | The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers | With Wings as Eagles...From Fantasy to Flight
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The Great Depression
Resources about the U.S. Great Depression from the Library of Congress Web sites.
Dust Bowl Primary Source Set | Bound for Glory: 1939-1943 | Documenting America Photographic Series | Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs
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Her Story
Women's history
Women's Suffrage Primary Source Set | Women's Words of Wisdom | Who's That Lady? | Women Pioneers
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Holidays
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Thanksgiving Primary Source Set | Looking into Holidays Past
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Immigration
Cultural geography, personal identity
Immigration Primary Source Set | Immigration Feature Presentation | The Great American Potluck | Interviews with Today's Immigrants | Interactive Vocabulary Activities
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Labor in America
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America at Work | National Child Labor Committee Collection | Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
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  Literature and Poetry
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Found Poetry Primary Source Set | Found Poetry and the American Life Histories Collection | The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance | The Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of American Creativity
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  Music in America
Resources about music and song from the Library of Congress Web sites
Civil War Music Primary Source Set | American Memory Sounds Off! | American Variety Stage | Patriotic Melodies
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  The People...Native Americans
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Assimilation Through Education Primary Source Set | Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian | Immigration: Native Americans | American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
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  Political Cartoons
Resources about political cartoons from the Library of Congress
  It's No Laughing Matter | Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon
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  Science and Invention
Resources about science and inventions from the Library of Congress
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Summertime
Vacation and Leisure activities
  Baseball Across a Divided Society - Primary Source Set | Join America at Play | How does sunscreen work? | Looking Into Holidays Past — Summer
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  War and Peace
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We the People
Government, civics, legislative process, elections,inaugurations
  Constitution Primary Source Set | Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents American Political Parties Past | For and Against
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