This Website from the National Museum of American History (NMAH) opens a door on the everyday history of American families from 1757 to 1945. The exhibit is organized around a house in Ipswich, Massachusetts and five of the different families that lived there over time. Visitors can click on one of the family names at the top of the page to bring up a thumbnail introduction to the family, images...

Words and Deeds "celebrat[es] the Library of Congress Manuscript Division's first 100 years" by providing 92 manuscript documents in ten subject areas at this time, from the 15th century to 1965. Included are Washington's First Inaugural Address, Morse's sketch of a telegraph, the Compromise of 1850 speeches of Calhoun and Webster, Bell's sketch of a telephone, and Frost's "Dedication," at the...