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During the Great Depression, the US federal government launched a project to support unemployed writers. The writers traveled through the country collecting the life stories of regular Americans. Read their work at American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. (Photo by Jack Delano, Library of Congress . More about the photograph)

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NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Office of Environmental Education All of North Carolina's environmental education resources in one place.
America's Jazz Heritage From the Smithsonian Institution, a collection of exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs that present the history of jazz.
NASA Sun-Earth Viewer Use the Media Viewer to see images, illustrations, and visualizations of the sun, solar effects on Earth, radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum, and more.

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