Creating Online Materials for Teaching United States History

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
June 16-22, 1996.


Source Materials


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Projects created by seminar participants using this material.

MSS 38-11
MSS 4800
Broadside 1913 .A44
MSS 2602
MSS 6060


Nathan Brown, The History of Magnus Maharba and the Black Dragon, By Kristophur Kadmus. Also the "rectified Saxon orthography" version: De Histori of Magnus Maha'rba and de Blak Dragun, 1866 and 1867.


Edwin Markham, Judge Ben B. Lindsay, & George Creel, Children in Bondage, 1914.




MS 4101: Oscar Edward Cesare drawings


Covers of Dime Novels:



Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia, 1864.


Adalbert John Volck, Confederate Etchings, 1863.


Images of Lincoln from Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's


George M. Cohan, Sheet music for "Over There"


Cover of William Lightfoot Vischerr, A Thrilling and Truthful History of the Pony Express, 1908.

Frederic Remington Drawings, 1897
MSS 228-a: Baldwin-Stuart Papers

  • Letter from Garrett Davis to Alexander H. H. Stuart, 28 1851
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4

  • Broadside 1900.L68: "The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours!"

  • Front
  • Back

  • MSS 10728: Letter from George R. Mapp to Thomas Scott


    MSS 8975: Papers of John T. Blake


    MSS 10496: Papers of the Healy Family


    MSS 6314: Papers of Mark Twain


    Poster version of Woodrow Wilson's War Message, 1917