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Foreword
As an educational resource, if there's anything the Internet is really really tops in, it's its role as a source of archival content. The fact that there is indeed archival content available to us isn't the big deal (we've had that for the longest time... the U.S. is really good at that kind of stuff!) — it's that the Internet has finally given us all very easy access to much of it!

Here are two such sources...
 

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org
PG's been around for quite some time (since 1971, according to its site). Although I've known about it for years, it's been a while since I dropped by for a visit. And every time I visit, I wonder why I don't drop by more often!

Project Gutenberg's raison d'être is to find books that through age more often than not have worked themselves into the public domain. PG then converts them to digital text and makes that available for download, gratis, to any and all comers!

Are there enough books available to download? Well, is a catalog of over 25,000 downloadable titles enough?

I thought so.

NOTE: I just noticed that PG now offers digitized sheet music as well!

Go to Project Gutenberg
 

National Archives Videos
http://video.google.com/nara.html
This riveting collection of over 100 historical "motion pictures" collected at the National Archives are available here for your viewing and use.

The videos on this site fall under these categories:

• NASA History of Space Flight [15 vids]

• United Newsreel (1942-45) [62 vids]

• Department of the Interior [24 vids]

I found the United Newsreel collection particularly mesmerizing (I've always liked historic WWII stuff). Make sure not to miss the Department of the Interior vids with early footage of Native American activities!

Go to the National Archives Videos