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Ram's Horn: An Interdenominational Social Gospel Magazine
This site provides images and cartoons from this magazine, which was published around 1900.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/Rams_Horn/default.cfm
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Shaping the Values of Youth: Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
"Shaping the Values of Youth is a digitization project completed by Central Michigan University and Michigan State University. Sunday School Book Titles from the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection, Michigan State University Libraries, and the Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University have been selected for digitization, making them available to the public through this site."
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/ssb/
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
A major site provided by the Library of Congress. Includes: Photos & Prints; Documents; Motion Pictures; Maps; Sound Recordings. Searchable and browseable.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
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Africa Focus: The Sights and Sounds of a Continent
"This online collection is maintained on the website of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized visual images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These digital files are stored in an accessible database and provided for personal use or educational presentations."
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
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Great Assemblage: An Exhibit of Judaica
"This exhibit is a joint effort of the many divisions of the Yale University Library that contain Judaica. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contributed manuscripts and prints from 18th-century Italy and early 20th-century Palestine. Of particular interest are the ketubahs (illuminated marriage contracts) from the Sholem Asch Collection. Many important works in Hebrew and Yiddish on display come from the Judaica Collection of the Sterling Memorial Library. The Babylonian Collection, Map Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, and the Art and Architecture Library also contributed material."
http://www.library.yale.edu/exhibition/judaica/
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Holocaust History Project
"The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
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Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
"The primary goal of this project is to create a significant, high-quality resource about the art of the Holocaust for researchers, educators, students and the wider public. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot is responsible for most of the content of this website. The Museum has selected, photographed, researched and documented the art works and provided the accompanying biographies, articles and educational materials. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot has one of the foremost collections of art relating to the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, including 3000 drawings, paintings and sculptures."
http://art.holocaust-education.net/
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Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
"The 140,000 fragments of Hebrew and Jewish literature and documents rescued from the The Ben Ezra Synagogue (112k) in Cairo cover every aspect of life in the Mediterranean area a thousand years ago. The active programme of conservation and research being conducted at Cambridge University Library, where they are housed, is leading to all manner of exciting discoveries about Jewish religious, communal and personal life, Hebrew culture, settlement in the land of Israel and relations with Muslims and Christians from as early as the ninth and tenth centuries."
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/
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You Shall Tell Your Children: The Passover Haggadah in the Yale University Library Collections
This online exhibit displays the history of the Haggadah, which is a compilation of biblical texts, prayers, hymns, and rabbinic commentaries associated with the feast of Passover.
http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/exhibits/children/index.html
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W. Willker's Bible Pages
This page offers resources relating to New Testament textual criticism, papyrology, Hellenistic Greek and NT apocryphal writings.
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/ww_tc.html
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Biblewalks.com
This site offers photographs from the Holy Land, and related information about sites referred to in the Bible as they look today.
http://www.biblewalks.com/
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West Semitic Research Project
"The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 15 years WSRP has used advanced photographic and computer imaging techniques to document objects and texts from the ancient world. In doing this we have built a vast collection of images that we are now making available to scholars, students, educators and the general public through a variety of ways."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/
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Iris Ministries
This site describes and illustrates with photos the missionary efforts of Rolland and Heidi Baker in Africa.
http://www.irisglobal.org/
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Sacred Contexts
A major exhibition of sacred texts from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was presented to the public by the British Library in 2007. This site offers the visitor the ability to see some of the texts online and watch video clips about them.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/sacred/homepage.html
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House of the Virgin Mary
A page with photos of a site at Ephesus, Turkey, which is believed by some to be the residence of Mary at the time of her death.
http://www.kusadasi.biz/virgin-mary/
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APIS, Advanced Papyrological Information System
"APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. When possible, links are also provided to the original language texts. The user can move back and forth among text, translation, bibliography, description, and image."
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/
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Danteworlds
"Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey--combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings--through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy. The site is structured around a visual representation of Dante's worlds: it shows who and what appear where." From the University of Texas.
http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index.html
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