The Library of Congress launched the American Memory project in 1994 to make digitized historical materials from its special collections freely available online.
Sources
- American Memory project | digital library | Britannica (britannica.com)
- https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-01-004/ (loc.gov)
- https://www.dlib.org/dlib/april96/loc/04c-arms.html (dlib.org)
More in History
- Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes after World War II.
- The Manhattan Project aimed to build a weapon using nuclear fission.
- A fire on Christmas Eve 1851 destroyed two-thirds of the Library of Congress's collection.
- The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
- By 1970, the CIA's Operation Momentum in Laos cost $500 million annually, equivalent to about $3.3 billion in today's dollars.
- The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain, to date, the only use of nuclear weapons in hostilities.