Among the things newbies and veteran Web users find most frustrating is the number of sites out there that lack content. Content is what you will find here - photographs, documents, motion pictures, sound recordings, statistics, timelines and maps, all relating to United States culture and history. The National Digital Library Program selects unique Americana that it deems will be of the greatest value to students, researchers and educators. A bonus is that many of these items have no copyright restrictions. Teachers crave the type of content at this site.
History textbooks are so limited. . . .
They do not allow students to pursue what most intrigues them. And here you can learn how to research.'' Not only is the material here, the designers also understand the need to teach students how to search for it. Users' curiosity is supported by an impressive search engine and a variety of subject and alphabetical directories. The collection is amazingly eclectic, a delightful hodgepodge of treasures. Today in History is a new daily feature providing daily historical facts from the library's American Memory Collection.