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[Detail] Columbus. 
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Historical context and ideas for integrating individual digital collections of primary sources into instruction.
California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California (Summary and Teaching Resources)
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement: 1850-1920 (Summary and Teaching Resources) Journals and images document explorations of the American frontier.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
France in America (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collaborative digital library explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
History of the American West: 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake (Summary Only)
Mapping the National Parks (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Meeting of the Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West (Summary Only)
The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States and the American Frontier (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912 (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 (Summary and Teaching Resources)
The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures (Summary Only)
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 (Summary and Teaching Resources)
Last Updated: 06/26/2009