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Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism

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There Is No Cure for Polio

Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism

Beginnings of the American Red Cross

Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern American Architecture

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Bem, Greg, Kili Bergau, Jessica Blanchard and Emily Felt. From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture. Digital Public Library of America. September 2014. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/maps-in-american-culture">https://dp.la/exhibitions/maps-in-american-culture</a>.

From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture

DeArmond, Megan, Diana Moronta, and Laurin Paradise. Women with Wings: American Aviatrixes. Digital Public Library of America. March 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/american-aviatrixes">https://dp.la/exhibitions/american-aviatrixes</a>.

American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings

Campbell, Bethany, Michelle John, Samantha Reid-Goldberg, Anne Sexton, and John Weimer. America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. Digital Public Library of America. April 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/1918-influenza">https://dp.la/exhibitions/1918-influenza</a>.

America during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Chapman, Stephanie, Jessica Keener, Nicole Sobota, and Courtney Whitmore. Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps. Digital Public Library of America. July 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment">https://dp.la/exhibitions/japanese-internment</a>.

Prisoners at Home: Everyday Life in Japanese Internment Camps 

Yeager, Della. Recreational Tourism in the Mountain West. Digital Public Library of America. September 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/tourism-mountain-west">https://dp.la/exhibitions/tourism-mountain-west</a>.

Recreational Tourism in the Mountain West

Brady, Hillary, and Franky Abbott. A History of US Public Libraries. Digital Public Library of America. September 2015. <a href="https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries">https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries</a>.

A History of US Public Libraries

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