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Searching for a unique way to make meaningful connections between the past and the present? Check out this website that examines 19th-century children in America: what they read, what was written about them, and what was written for them. Perusal of this website should prove to be an informative and rewarding experience. FIND OUT MORE »

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Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains

Photograph, 1885, Dan Dutro, Museum of the Rockies Photo Archive.

Artifacts preserve the lifestyles of current and former American Indian tribes [...] »

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820

Document. Slave Inventory Sheets: Ship from Goree

Consider assigning contextual reports on the lives of individual slaves. [...] »

Voices of the Colorado Plateau

Photo. Grand View Trail Looking toward Apache Point from Mystic Spring Plateau.

There's more to the West than cowboys. [...] »

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Thanksgiving Dinner in 1943

Postcard, Thanksgiving day, 1907, Raphael Tuck and Sons, NYPL

Rationing in the Land of Abundance: Choose the foods that would have been hard [...] »

Who Won the War (of 1812)?

Print, This view of his majesty's ship Shannon, Aug. 1813, Robert Dodd, LoC

How do textbooks from different countries treat the War of 1812? [...] »

American Personalities: Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty

Lithograph, "In Danger. . . ,'" 1881, Joseph F. Keppler, Library of Congress

Playing the role of the U.S., these characters consistently star in propaganda [...] »

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The Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

photographic print, Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945 August, LOC

Controversial issues are often simplified in textbooks. Discover the facts [...] »

Causing the Civil War

Postcard, Train Load of Cotton for Export, South, 1902-1903, NYPL

Did King Cotton cause the Civil War? Or should you look further? [...] »

Women's Reform Movement

Print, A downright gabbler, or a goose that deserves to be hissed, 1829

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 reflected the voices of all [...] »

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Society for History in the Federal Government

Transparency, U.S. Capitol exteriors, c. 1920-1950, Theodor Horydczak, LoC

Represents historians across executive, judicial, and congressional government [...] »

Voice of America

Photo, Indian (Native American) Participation. . . , New York Public Library

Find out how to pronounce tricky names, and listen to official international [...] »

National Endowment for the Arts

Photo, Cool Art, August 3, 2006, themusediffuse, Flickr, creative commons

Watch videos on jazz and opera history, courtesy of the National Endowment of [...] »

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Typical in the 1930s

one of the official typical families at the 1939 NY World's Fair

A panel of judges enlisted by the New York World’s Fair Corporation looked to Texas to find this family. [...] »

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