Colonial Era
Resources
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Revolutionary
Era Resources
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Civil War
Era Resources
- The 1862 Peninsula Campaign
- The American
Civil War Home Page
- American Civil War Resources
in the Special Collections Department at Virginia Tech
- Biographies
of Civil War Generals (This site is a concise index to the Generals
who fought on both sides of the US Civil War. It is not meant to replace
the several excellent biographies and encyclopedias which have been
published in print form, and which contain much more information than
is intended for this index.)
- Causes of
the Civil War
- Chronology
of the Secession Crisis (Most of the items here can be found in
E.B. Long's Civil War Day by Day (Doubleday, 1971).)
- Civil
War Battle Summaries by Campaign (Presented by the National Park
Service.)
- Civil War
Battle Summaries by State (Presented by the National Park Service.)
- Civil War Preservation Trust
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors
System (Presented by the National Park Service.)
- Civil
War Virtual Battlefield Tours
- Civil
War Women (A collection of primary sources related to women's experiences
during the Civil War.)
- Crisis at Fort Sumter
- The Dred Scott
Case (From the Special Collections at Washington University Libraries.)
- The Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 (From the Avalon Project at Yale University)
- The Generals of the Civil
War (This site contains pictures of 425 Confederate and 583 Union
general officers.)
- GMU
Special Collections & Archives - Research Guide - Virginia Civil
War Images from Harper's Weekly
- A Guide
to the Civil War Materials of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College
of William and Mary
- Index of Civil
War Naval Forces: Confederate and Union Ships
- Lincoln/Douglas
Debates of 1858 (Fully searchable text, interactive maps, audio
commentary, and photographs.)
- Map
of the 1860 Presidential Election
- The Museum of the Confederacy
- Selected
Civil War Photographs (An American Memory project)
- The Siege of Richmond
and Petersburg (June 15, 1864 -- April 2, 1865)
- The Southern Homefront,
1861-1865 (Part of the Documenting the American South project at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.)
- Uncle
Tom's Cabin: or Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Full
text via Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and
American Culture (Fully searchable texts, images, songs, 3-D objects,
film clips sponsored by The Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities at the University of Virginia.)
- The United States Civil War Center
(Located at Louisiana State University, the center promotes the study
of the Civil War from all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines.)
- U.S. Grant
Photo Gallery (Over 100 images of U.S. Grant.)
- The Valley of the Shadow:
Two Communities in the American Civil War
- Virginia Military
Institute Archives Civil War Resources
- Virginia's Civil War Battlefields
and Sites
- Women
and the Civil War: Manuscript sources in the Special Collections Library
at Duke University
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Reconstruction
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Twentieth Century
Resources
This section has been subdivided into two broad categories, social
issues and wars, engagements, and police actions.
While the Spanish-American War did not occur in the twentieth century,
the Treaty of Paris signed December 10, 1898 had a significant impact
on subsequent twentieth century events, especially for the United States.
Therefore, the resource list for the Spanish-American War has been included
with the other twentieth century conflicts.
Social Issues:
Progressive Era
- American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (Part
of the American Memory project, this page gives a description of some
of the ways Americans entertained themselves during the Progressive
Era. It explains the rise of variety theater and features the memorabilia
of Houdini, theater playbills, unpublished play scripts, film clips,
and audio files.).
- Anti-Saloon League,
1893-1933 (Site sponsored by the Westerville (Ohio) Public Library.
The Anti-Saloon League from 1893 to 1933 was a major force in American
politics. Influencing the United States through the printed word and
lobbying, they turned a moral crusade into a Constitutional amendment.)
- BoondocksNet.com (A large,
over 7,000 pages and 1,700 graphics, site with a focus on American imperialism
including a historical graphics gallery, political cartoons, and a Mark
Twain directory with more than 1,600 pages of content.)
- Conservation
in the Progressive Era (This is site is part of the American Memory
Project. Alarmed by the public's attitude toward natural resources as
well as the exploitation of natural resources for private gain, conservationists
called for federal supervision of the nation's resources and the preservation
of those resources for future generations.)
- The
Constitution: The 17th Amendment (The 17th amendment guarantees
the popular election of United States Senators.)
- The
Constitution: The 18th Amendment (The 18th amendment prohibits intoxicating
liquors.)
- The
Constitution: The 19th Amendment (The 19th amendment guarantees
all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required
a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation
and protest.)
- Education and John
Dewey (Essays on Dewey's education philosophy.Site sponsored by
the philosophy library.)
- The Great 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- The
History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida M. Tarbell (Full text,
sponsored by the University of Rochester.)
- Immigration
and the Progressive Era
- John
Barleycorn by Jack London (The University of California at Berkeley
provides a digital edition of Jack London's John Barleycorn. Although
far from his best novel, the book is nevertheless interesting because
in it London explains his support for prohibition legislation.)
- Keating
Owen Child Labor Act, 1916 (U.S. Labor site that gives the full
text of the 1916 Act. The act banned articles produced by child labor
from being sold in interstate commerce. The act was struck down as unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court just two years later.)
- The
Regulation of Competition versus The Regulation of Monopoly (An
Address by Dr. Charles R. Van Hise at the Twenty-First Meeting of the
Economic Club of New York on Friday Evening, November 1, 1912. Searchable
full text.)
- Temperance and
Prohibition (Created by an Ohio State University History Department
faculty member.)
- Temperance,
Prohibition, and Alcoholism (Site is sponsored by the Seagram Museum
Library. In assembling a collection of books about the beverage alcohol
industry, the Seagram Museum attempted to acquire materials illustrative
of the attitudes of society towards drinking and the social conditions
surrounding the consumption of alcohol.)
- Theodore Roosevelt
(An exhibition of Theodore Roosevelt sponsored by the National Portrait
Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution. This exhibition is a retrospective
look at the man and his portraiture, whose progressive ideas about social
justice, representative democracy, and America's role as a world leader
have significantly shaped our national character.)
- The
United States in the Progressive Era (A list of source materials
in the public domain)
- Woman Suffrage
Parade of 1913 (Library of Congress site with images and text.)
- Women's Suffrage Movement
in the United States, a Timeline
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Great Depression
- America's Great
Depression: A Timeline
- Archival
Resources on the Great Depression at the Carl Albert Center Congressional
Archives (Oklahoma)
- The
Dust Bowl Drought: A Paleo Perspective
- Farming
in the 1930s: The Dust Bowl (Site sponsored by the Living History
Farm in York, Nebraska.)
- Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (Photos of the Great
Depression and New Deal.)
- The Great Depression
- Documenting America (Library of Congress records of the Farm Security
Administration and Office of War Information Collection, showing rural
life and the negative impact of the Great Depression.)
- The
Great Depression (PBS companion site.)
- "I
Remember . . ." - Reminiscences of the Great Depression (Site
sponsored by Michigan Historical Center.)
- Looking
Back at the Crash of '29 (Site also has links to the front pages
of the New York Times for Oct. 28, 29, 30, 31 and Nov. 1, 1929.)
- New Deal Art During the Great
Depression
- New Deal Network: A Guide to the
Great Depression of the 1930s (Educational site focused on the programs
of FDR's New Deal. Sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia
University.)
- New York
Stock Market Crash of October 24, 1929 (A compilation of New York
Times headlines from before and after the Great Crash.)
- Photographs
of the Great Depression
- Picturing
the Century : The Great Depression and the New Deal (Site sponsored
by the National Archives.)
- Stock
Market Crash of 1929 (Companion site to the PBS' The First Measured
Century program.)
- Stock
Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression (Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library and Museum site.)
- Voices
from the Dust Bowl (An online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic
field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm
Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in
1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs,
manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two
separate documentation trips supported by the Archive of American Folk
Song.)
- Wall
Street, October 1929
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Civil Rights
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Brown v. Board
of Education: The Interactive Experience
- Civil
Rights: An Overview (Site is sponsored by the Legal Information
Institute at Cornell University.An overview of civil rights law with
links to key primary and secondary sources.)
- Civil
Rights Images (Site contains 178 individual images.)
- The King Center
(The official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- The Martin Luther King,
Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
- National
Civil Rights Museum (Opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine
Motel in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, the Museum exists to assist the
public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and
its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide, through
its collections, exhibitions, research and educational programs.)
- Rosa Parks,
Pioneer of Civil Rights (Hall of Public Service site.)
- Southern Freedom Movement
Links (Incredible site that contains hundreds of civil rights links.)
- The
Supreme Court and 'Brown v. Board of Ed.' The Deliberations Behind
the Landmark 1954 Ruling (National Public Radio site.)
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
(A partnership project produced by the U.S. Department of Interior,
National Park Service, U.S. Department of Transportation, The Federal
Highway Administration, and the National Conference of State Historic
Preservation Officers.)
- Voting
Rights Act of 1965
- We
Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
- "With an Even Hand":
Brown v. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress site.)
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Spanish-American War 1898
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USS Maine (1895-1898)
Is destroyed by explosion, in Havana Harbor, Cuba, 15 February
1898. Artwork, copied from the contemporary publication Uncle
Sam's Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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World War I
- The British Army in the Great
War, 1914-1918
- The First World War:
The War to End All Wars (The purpose of this website is to provide
an overview of the First World War.)
- The Great
War
- HMS Hampshire (This site
is dedicated to the HMS Hampshire, of the British Navy, an armored cruiser.
Displacement, 10,850 tons. Length, 450 feet. Width, 68 ½ feet.
Draft, 25 feet. Horse-power, 21,508. Armament: 4 7.5-inch guns; 6 6-inch;
2 12-pounders; 22 3-pounders; 2 machine guns. Speed, 23.47 Knots. Crew
655 officers and men. built in Elswick, England, in 1903-5. Cost about
$4,200,000. Sunk June 5, 1916.)
- Propaganda Postcards
of the Great War (This site features an extensive, searchable image
collection of postcards.)
- Trenches on the Web
(Maps of various regions, battles and theaters of operation.)
- Viribus Unitis 3-D
Project (Excellent 3-D modeling site dedicated to the Austro-Hungarian
Dreadnought that was the world's first triple gun turret battleship.)
- World
War I (BBC site that contains interactive media, maps, and oral
histories. Timeline of campaigns and battles.)
- World War I Document
Archive (An archive of primary documents from World War I, assembled
by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The
archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location
primary documents concerning the Great War. The archive is searchable.)
- World War I Naval Combat
(This site is mainly about surface warship warfare between the Imperial
German Navy and the British Royal Navy (RN) during World War I.)
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World War II
- African Americans
in World War II (Site is part of the larger Lest We Forget site.)
- American Aces of World War II
(American fighter pilots and airplanes of WWII. All the World War
II theatres, services, and fighter planes are included.)
- American Aircraft
of World War II (This is a reference site with photos, data, and
info on all American aircraft designed or used in World War II.)
- Aircraft Carriers of World
War II
- Documents of
World War II
- European
Royalty during World War II
- The Generals of World
War II (This project is an attempt to create a biographical database
covering the army generals of the Second World War of all participating
countries. At the moment the database contains 14761 short biographical
sketches of the army generals of World War II.).
- Hearings
on the Pearl Harbor Attack (Collected here are documents from the
23 volume, 40 part, 25,000 page report of HEARINGS BEFORE THE JOINT
COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK CONGRESS OF
THE UNITED STATES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS which was released on July
20, 1946.)
- The Institute on World War II
and the Human Experience (Sponsored by the History Department at
Florida State University, this site focuses on preserving the memories
and artifacts of the men and women who served in World War II in the
service and of civilians who helped on the home front.)
- Maps of World War II
(An overview of WWII through a collection of maps that present the battles
and campaigns fought in the various theatres of war. The material is
organized by theatre, in roughly chronological order.)
- National
World War II Memorial (The World War II Memorial honors the 16 million
who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who
died, and all who supported the war effort from home.)
- Pacific Naval Battles
in World War II
- Polish Jews
in World War II
- Primary Documents
of World War II
- Rosie the Riveter
and other Women World War II Heroes
- Songs
of World War II
- Tanks in World
War II
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Voices of
World War II: Experiences from the Front and at Home (Sponsored
by the Missouri State Library.)
- War
Crimes and Criminals
- World War II: A British
Focus
- World War II: Analyzed!
(Site with many links to battle reports divided into units, weapons,
tactics, battles & raids, and persons.)
- World
War II in Europe (Timeline with photographs and text.)
- World
War II Historical Text Archive (Site contains articles, links, and
photographs.)
- World War II: The Homefront
(While this site doesn't give in-depth reasons for the war, it does
cover day-to-day life and period culture, such as television, movies,
and toys. The pictorial timeline is thorough, covering events that led
to the war right up through the defeat of Japan. Artifacts, posters,
and graphics make the site a compelling history from the homefront.)
- World War II
Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art
- World War II Sound
& Image Archive
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Cold War
- Atomic Archive (Site explores
the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. )
- The Bradbury Science Museum
(Site's main focus is an overview of the work taking place at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, and exhibits include looks at the history
of the Manhattan Project (including the first cases of the atomic bomb),
as well as displays of the latest in laser, computer, geothermal, solar,
nuclear, and other technologies, from health research to environmental
studies.)
- Bureau of Atomic Tourism
(Site is dedicated to the promotion of tourist locations around the
world that have either been the site of atomic explosions, display exhibits
on the development of atomic devices, or contain vehicles that were
designed to deliver atomic weapons.)
- The Cold
War (A large selection of links accumulated by an anthropologist
who is using the Freedom of Information Act, archival sources and interviews
to write an historical account of the influences of the Cold War on
American anthropology.)
- The
Cold War International History Project (Site disseminates new information
and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings
from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" --
the former Communist world.)
- The Cold War Museum
- Cold War
Policies, 1945 - 1991
- The Cold War Science
& Technology Studies Program (This program is directed by David
A. Hounshell, Department of History,Carnegie Mellon University.)
- Cold
War Spies and Espionage
- Cold War
Studies at Kansas State University (Site contains transcripts of
numerous cold war era speeches.)
- Documents
Relating to American Foreign Policy during the Cold War
- U.S.
Nuclear Weapons Photos from the Brookings Institution. (Many pictures
of U.S. missiles, deployments, tests, and production facilities.)
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Vietnam
- Oral
Histories of Women Who Served in Vietnam (Site has transcribed interviews
with dozens of female Vietnam War veterans.)
- Remembrance: Reflections,
Memories, and Images of Vietnam Past (Site is a collection of "Galleries"
containing imagery, stories, poems, songs, maps, and narratives from
or about the Vietnam War era. This section also contains a "Glossary"
of terms and slang used in this era.)
- Selected
Vietnam Battle Sites (United States Military Academy)
- Sixties
Project: Primary Document Archives (Site contains many links to
information about sixties social movements during the Vietnam War.)
- Sounds of Vietnam (Almost
every novel, memoir or oral history of the war by a veteran mentions
the music that the author listened to in Vietnam. All the songs of the
'60s were part of the life in a combat zone. Troops listened to Sony
radios, Akai stereos and Teac tape decks and new troops arrived weekly
with the latest records from the states. Many of the sound clips below
were recorded on a reel to reel recorder in Vietnam. They were then
sent home and transferred to cassette.)
- United
States Military Academy Department of History Vietnam War Maps
- The
Vietnam War Declassification Project (Sponsored by the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library.)
- The Vietnam Project at Texas
Tech University (Site is comprised of the Vietnam Center, the Vietnam
Archive, the Virtual Vietnam Archive, and the Oral History Project.)
- The Vietnam
War (Site is sponsored by The History Place. Site contains extensive
timeline with quotes and analysis.)
- The Vietnam War (A pictorial
essay.)
- The Vietnam
War Index of political and military figures
- Vietnam
War Internet Links (Hundreds of links organized by subject.)
- The Vietnam
War Resource Guide
- The Viet Nam War:
An Overview (Site created by two history professors, one at Vassar
College and the other at Seton Hall University. Site also contains numerous
primary document links.)
- The Virtual Wall®
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- The
War in Vietnam: A Story in Photographs (A digital classroom site
sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration.)
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The First Persian Gulf War (Desert Shield/Desert
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Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan
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The Second Persian Gulf War (Operation Infinite
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- African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century (Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Digital Library Collection).
- American Libraries
before 1876 (The Davies Project at Princeton University allows users
to research the history of University Libraries in the United States
and the history of their collections.)
- American Memory
- The Bluestocking
Archive (Elizabeth Fay, University of Massachusetts. This archive
has been constructed as a layered series in which related texts can
be situated both simply and complexly. The attempt is to make clearer
the connections between the phenomenon of the original Bluestocking
Circle, the development of sensibility, and the achievements of High
Romanticism.)
- Bristol
Slavery (The City of Bristol and its links with the Transatlantic
Slave Trade)
- British Women
Romantic Poets, 1789 - 1832 (An collection of texts from the Shields
Library, University of California, Davis. Searchable/browsable collection
in HTML and SGML formats.)
- Centre for Whistler
Studies - The Centre is the primary focus in Glasgow University
for scholarship on the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and
his circle. The major current research program is an edition of the
10,000 letters in the Whistler correspondence.
- The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Medieval
Stained Glass in Great Britain)
- Digital Dante (Integrates
multimedia, as well as hyperlinked text commentary and other materials,
into the reading of the Commedia in an innovative way -- a way not previously
possible in non-digital media. The Digital Dante Project is essentially
a twenty-first-century illumination of contemporary and historical culture)
- Digital Library Federation
- Documenting the American
South
- The
Dolley Madison Project
- Dust Bowl
Migration Digital Archives
- EAD (Encoded
Archival Description) Help Pages
- Early Modern
Women Writers (Full text of Sweet Nosegay (1573) by Isabella Whitney
and Female Poems on Several Occasions (1679) by Ephelia.)
- The Empire that was
Russia (The photographic collection of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii)
- Five College Archives Digital
Access Project
- Godey's Lady's
Book (Godey's Lady's Book was one of the most popular lady's books
of the 19th century. Each issue contained poetry, beautiful engraving
and articles by some of the most well known authors in America.)
- Historical
Maps of China
- Jamestown
Exposition of 1907
- The Japanese American Legacy
Project (Mission is to preserve the personal testimonies of Japanese
Americans who were incarcerated during World War II)
- John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
(A Project of the British Academy)
- Leonardo
da Vinci Interactive Timeline
- Library
and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (A Project of the Smithsonian
Institution Libraries)
- Like a Family: Making of
a Southern Cotton Mill World (Based on interviews collected by the
Southern Oral History Program's Piedmont Industrialization Project.
The project documented the life histories of more than 360 individuals
in seven major sites: Bynum, Burlington, Charlotte, Durham, and Catawba
County in North Carolina; Elizabethton, Tennessee; and Greenville, South
Carolina)
- Live Music Archive
(A community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts
in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed
up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible
for current and future generations to enjoy.)
- Making of America
- Meeting
of Frontiers (A bilingual, English-Russian collaborative project
that chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia
in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers, and the meeting
of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It features
rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, sheet music and other materials
from libraries in the United States and Russia.)
- National Anthropological Archives
Online - a Guide to the Smithsonian's extensive collections of ethnographic,
archaeological, linguistic and physical anthropology field notes, journals,
manuscripts, audio recordings, motion picture film, video and more than
400,000 photographs of cultures worldwide.
- National
Monuments Record - the public archive of English Heritage. It is
a fantastic source for archaeology, buildings and aerial photographs
of England.
- National Security Archive
(The world's largest non governmental library of declassified United States
documents)
- North American Slave
Narratives (Part of the Documenting the American South project at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Perseus Digital Library
- The Proceedings of the
Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 (A fully searchable online edition
of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people
ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials
held at London's central criminal court.)
- The Roanoke Island
Freedmen's Colony (During the Civil War, Union-occupied Roanoke
Island, which lies between the North Carolina mainland and the barrier
islands known as the Outer Banks, became home to thousands of former
slaves. This site presents an introduction to the colony and features
some primary sources, maps, and projects for students.)
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet
History
- Victorian Women Writers
Project (Large collection of SGML-encoded texts by British women
writers. )
- Virginia Newspaper
Project
- William Blake Archive
- Women
in America, 1820-1842 (Created by Mary Halnon; hosted by University
of Virginia. Extracts from published and archival sources in HTML format
by various writers about the social conditions of women in the United
States.)
- Women Working, 1800-1930
(Part of: Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library. Digitized
historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's
library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US
economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. The collection
can be browsed or searched.)
- World
War II Poster Collection (The Government Publications Department
at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of
over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war
through 1945.)
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