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  • Hinged bracelet with cameo

  • Animals at the zoo

    Photograph shows a zebra at the National Zoo, Washington, D.C.
  • Mona Lisa

  • Cowrie Shell Girdle

    The girdle would have been worn around a woman's hips and were a symbol of femininity and fertility.
  • The Last Supper

  • Katherine Parr

    A Portrait of the Queen of England, Catherine Parr
  • Belt

    Clothes and accessories often included cowrie shells as a reflection of wealth and status.
  • Gold earring with rosette disk

  • Kemp ridley sea turtle endangered species washes up on the beach

  • Statue of Liberty

    A gift from France, a symbol of freedom.
  • Jane Seymour's Badge

    A heraldic shield depicting Jane Seymour's badge, from the west front bridge, Hampton Court Palace.
  • Medal of Major General Z. Taylor

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  • Unfortunate Creatures

    Unfortunate Creatures is a database of natural disasters taking place pre modern history, which allows you to search and explore by date, type, and location.
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  • Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies: A Digital Visualization and Analysis of the LGBTQ+ Subcultures of Mid-Twentieth Century Boston

    This Archive talks about the diversity of the LGBTQ+ culture that existed in the twentieth century of Boston. It includes articles, newspaper clippings, journal entries, and historical records.
  • Unfortunate creatures, Pre-Modern Natural Disaster Narratives

    Audience in mind is people interested in European history and or natural disasters from 1200-1700
  • Map of Early London

    The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) recreates sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London with all its churches, markets, bookshops, neighborhoods, gates and halls, and it does so with a large and detailed maps combined with primary source materials describing or depicting London at the time.
  • Migration is Beautiful

    Migration is Beautiful developed from the Mujeres Latina Project. The project started in 2005 at the Iowa’s Women’s Archives to collect and preserve primary source materials about the history of Latinas and their families in Iowa. The University of Iowa graduates, community members, librarians, and archivists conducted over a hundred oral interviews with Iowa Latinas. In addition to donating their personal narratives, many Latino families generously donated letters, memoirs, and photographs that further added detail firsthand accounts to the project.
  • Digital Harlem

    A website created to document happenings in Harlem from 1915 to 1930. Includes events such as sports games, crimes, nightlife, and churches. The interactive map lets you see the expansion of “Black Harlem” and visually presents other information along with detailed descriptions and timelines.
  • DISCOVER THE MANY HISTORIES OF BLACK MORMONS

    The website has who, what, where, and how many when talking about Black people in the mormon church. they have many people that have worked on this site. They have got two awards. one in 2021 and the other one in 2022. Lastly, this site shows the history of black people who became mormon and the church.
  • Black Women Radicals

    A digital collection consisting of databases, blogs, archives, and projects uplifting Black Womens’ voices and histories. The project expands gender and racial bounds through radical political activism. Created by Black Women Radicals (BWR), which is a black feminist advocate group.
  • The Lost Museum

    The video explains through descriptive audio and pictures how Barnum's American Museum opened in 1841 in New York City, in no time became the most visited place in America but was destroyed in July 1865. It then shows the effects of this damage through animated pictures, music, and no descriptive audio.
  • Haiti Lab

    Undergraduate and graduate students work with specialists in Haitian culture, history, and language on projects with Duke University's expertise across disciplines and schools. The Haiti Lab is also a resource for media outlets seeking to gain knowledge of Haiti.
  • Mapping Marronage

    Mapping Marronage provides interactive maps to follow the route of a select number of enslaved African Americans through their movements and connections during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The website provides visuals for “Flights” which depict the route one took to escape enslavement, and “Networks” which provide archived data on the connections these individuals made via letters, files and records, and other logged information.