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Letters to Esther: Resources
Updated 23 June 2006


American History

Colonial Period
(I've added this section because I found these links useful when researching Esther's genealogy.)


Colonial America (Wikipedia)
Pilgrims (Wikipedia)
Plymouth Colony (Wikipedia)
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Colonial Ancestors: Colonial genealogy records and history information
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History
Pilgrims and Puritans: context and developments
Virginia Runaways: runaway slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers



Early 20th Century


Reforming Fashion: 1850-1914 Politics, Health, and Art
Temperance Movement (Wikipedia)
Prohibition (Wikipedia)
Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition: a Brown University Library Digital Collection
The Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, California, 1915, Bibliography by Location
Panama-California Exposition ~ San Diego ~ 1915-1916, Postcards
Wessels Living History Farm: Farming in Nebraska in the 1920s-1940s
Thank You Mr. Edison -- Electricity, Innovation, and Social Change (Library of Congress)
American Cultural History 1910-1919
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
Slang of the 1920s
MagazineArt, a free visual database of magazine cover art from the 19th and early 20th centuries
Sense and Sensibility's Vintage Image Gallery, clothing and sewing patterns 1795-1959
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
Model T Ford (Wikipedia)



Indiana History


Indiana Historical Society
Adams County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links
Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links
Bibliography of World Wide Web Resources for Indiana History
Indiana History and Genealogy Resource Guide
Teacher Education and the Normal School Movement in Indiana (Connor Prairie)

Health and Medicine in the Early 20th Century

Influenza Pandemic of 1918


Influenza (Wikipedia)
Spanish Flu (Wikipedia)
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics (Centers for Disease Control)
Philadelphia, Nurses, and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Influenza in the United States, 1887-1956
Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus (Centers for Disease Control)
1918 Influenza Epidemic Photo Galleries (National Museum of Health & Medicine)
The Pandemic of Influenza in 1918-1919
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (National Archives & Records Administration)
A Forgotten Enemy: PHS's [Public Health Service] Fight Against the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The Great Influenza of 1918 The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications (Journal of Translational Medicine)
The Origins of Pandemic Influenza — Lessons from the 1918 Virus (The New England Journal of Medicine


Diphtheria


Diphtheria (Wikipedia)
Diptheria (Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology)
The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race and the Diphtheria Vaccine

Women's Lives

Home Life


Women's Work, Never Done: West Virginia Farm Women 1880s-1920s
1920s Pioneer Kitchen
Dairy Antique Site - Butter Churns, Milk Bottles & Cream Separators
Domestic Life in the 1920s
Laundry Care in the 1920s
Women's Roles in the Late 19th Century
19th Century Farm Wives in the Midwest


Women's Suffrage


Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party (Library of Congress)
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
The Seneca Falls Convention (Wikipedia)
A History of the American Suffragist Movement
Women's Suffrage (Wikipedia)
Dean of Women Mandates that Female Students Wear Bloomers January 13, 1928

Web Tools

Day of the Week Calculator
The Internet Movie Database


Genealogy

Encyclopedia of Genealogy, information on genealogical techniques
WorldConnect.com, user contributed family trees
RootsWeb.com, user contributed information and public vital records
FamilySearch.org, Latter Day Saints genealogical records

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