Making of America
Encyclopedia
Making of America is a digital archive hosted by Cornell University
and the University of Michigan
. The Making of America collection at the University of Michigan consists primarily of books published in the United States between 1850 and 1877. The Making of America collection at Cornell contains almost 1,000 volumes of 22 journals from the 19th century. As of February 2007 the University of Michigan held 12,639 volumes containing 3,792,847 pages of e-text
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Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. The Making of America collection at the University of Michigan consists primarily of books published in the United States between 1850 and 1877. The Making of America collection at Cornell contains almost 1,000 volumes of 22 journals from the 19th century. As of February 2007 the University of Michigan held 12,639 volumes containing 3,792,847 pages of e-text
E-text
An e-text is, generally, any text-based information that is available in a digitally encoded human-readable format and read by electronic means, but more specifically it refers to files in the ASCII character encoding.E-text has the broad meaning of something electronic that represents words, a...
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