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At peak term paper time, students will love the ease of printing and downloading. Probably the premier Web sites for unimpeachable historical texts are those provided by the federal government. The results range from the essential to the oddly eclectic, including images and texts from the Continental Congresses, portraits of the presidents and first ladies, high points from the Manuscript Division, baseball cards, Farm Security Administration photographs, panoramic views of US cities, and WPA oral history interviews, among others. Both sites offer full-page images of texts, with a growing number of texts also available in transcribed versions. Making of America aims to provide a comprehensive digital library of 19th-century America, but many Web archives contain selected historic documents arranged by time period or around a specific theme.