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Search databases for reliable, online history content for educators and students.

Museums and Historic Sites

History in Multimedia

Website Reviews

History Content Gateway

National Centers

Explore this listing of federal organizations and highlights of their resources for teaching and learning American history.

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Photo, "NYC. . . Justice," wallyg, February 2, 2008, Flickr

Everyday you read about local crime in the newspaper, but are the rates really going up?

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Website Reviews

Browse website reviews for teaching U.S. history or search.

A New Deal for the Arts

Lithograph, "El Station, Sunday Morning," Jack Markow

View works from artists financed by the United States Government during the Great Depression.

A New Deal for Carbon Hill, Alabama

Photo, "Dance Hall, Saturday Night," William C. Pryor 1938

Discover how FDR's New Deal impacted life in small town America.

Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia 1876

Image, "Vim, The Universal Cleanser and Polisher," 1876.

Primary sources from Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exhibition provide a view of the U.S.'s industrial development.

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Ask a Historian Archive

Historians answer your questions about history and historiography.

American Indian Women

Indian woman profile

Different kinds of power in different cultures.

U.S. and Egypt in the 1950s

Egyptian pyramid

Creating political blowback in the Middle East

Rock Paper Scissors

"paper" hand

Gamester extraordinaire Comte de Rochambeau?

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