Exhibitions and Other Interesting Websites

Exhibitions

DoHistory: Martha Ballard

An experimental, interactive website based on the research that went into Laurel Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale

From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?

Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History

From the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Interesting Websites

The Arts and Letters Daily

The Living Room Candidate

Archive of US presidential campaign commercials, beginning 1952.

Earliest Voices: A Gallery from the Vincent Voice Library.

Includes recordings of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, William Taft, and Booker T. Washington.

John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations

A joint project of the Library of Congress and The British Library, the John Bull and Uncle Sam exhibition brings together for the first time treasures from the two greatest libraries in the English-speaking world in an exploration of selected time periods and cultural movements that provide unique insights into the relationship of the United States and Great Britain.

Melville's Marginalia Online

Over the course of Spring 2006, this site will reproduces, in PDF form, some of Melville's marginalia, and even resurrects annotations that Melville had erased. At present (Feb 15 2006), reproduces Melville's annotations on Thomas Beale, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (1839), an important source for Moby-Dick.

U.S. Surname Distribution

Geographical distribution of surnames in the United States.

White House Tapes

Includes full recordings of the secret White House recordings, from Roosevelt to Nixon.