Musings...

C-SPAN: American History TV
http://c-span.org/Series/American-History-TV.aspx
C-SPAN’s American History TV runs every weekend. The programs offer up conversations with authors and historians, along with first person accounts of American history. The homepage includes a complete schedule of past and upcoming programs, along with featured interviews. Some of the recent features have included interviews with former Representative Dan Rostenkowski, Senator Bob Dole, and Frank Yamasaki, a Japanese-American who was interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II. Moving on, visitors can also take advantage of the "Web Resources" area, which includes links to the U.S. Congress homepage, the Supreme Court, and legislative bodies around the world.

Nettleton Civil War Letters at the Electronic Text Center
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/nettleton/
These rather fascinating letters were given to the University of Virginia in 2000 by Corrine Carr Nettleton, and they were subsequently digitized and placed online here. The correspondence is between Charles N. Tenney, a Union soldier from Ohio, and Adelaide E. Case, a friend from the small town of Mecca, Ohio. The collection offers some rather intriguing insights into the lives of both individuals, and the broader social and historical context of this period of American history. The entire collection is searchable by word, phrase, or date.

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ProQuest Will Provide Free Access to Six Databases for National Library Week

ProQuest is offering “free, open access,” to a number of databases from their National Library Week webpage from April 12 – April 18.