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This interactive website examines the history of New England from the 16th to the 20th century. In addition to its enormous collection of primary sources, the website also has approximately 100 activities designed specifically for student use. Peruse this website today and discover a wonderful survey of New England culture! FIND OUT MORE »

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Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency

State of South Carolina, $50, March 2, 1872, UNC

Learn about southern culture through the images on Confederate currency. [...] »

Walt Whitman Archive

Daguerreotype, Walt Whitman, c. 1854, New York Public Library, Walt. . . site

Get to know the life, mind, works, and criticisms of poet Walt Whitman. [...] »

Historical Maps Online

Map, Accurata delineatio..., c.1734, Matthaeus Seutter

View 400 hundred years of cartography from the Illinois area. [...] »

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Columbus Day: Stories of Exploration

Photo, The Viking ship, Jun. 1893, Detroit Publishing Co., Library of Congress

Which tales of daring exploration do you believe? [...] »

The "Daisy" Ad

Screencap, Daisy ad, 1964, Living Room Candidate, Museum of the Moving Image

Johnson, Goldwater, and the politics of fear. [...] »

A Hoax Provokes Folks: Why Lie?

Photo, Cardiff Giant, c.1910-1915, Bains News Service, Library of Congress

Peruse the news, but beware hot air? Examine famous U.S. hoaxes. [...] »

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The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger

Dynamics of Idealism- Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982 432x240

Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »

The Early Conservation Movement

photographic print, Quentin Roosevelt Planting a Tree, c1904, Edward S. Curtis,

The "go-green" movement is rampant in modern America. However, support for [...] »

Rise of the Automobile

Photo, Model A Ford in front of antique gas pumps, August 4, 2007, Flickr

Americans today take cars for granted. How did they change American life? [...] »

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Photo, Kids watching rockets at the Summer Adventure, LANL site

Follow the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction through the protection of [...] »

U.S. Senate Historical Office

Lithograph, "The Great Congressional Tramp. . . ," 1882, Mayer, U.S. Senate site

Political cartoons, photos, oral histories, artifacts, essays, and facts. [...] »

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 [...] »

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Union Cavalry

Print, Forbes, Edwin, 1896, The war in Virginia -- capture of three Confederate

The development of the Union cavalry forces was behind that of the Confederates which was considered, " the best Cavalry in the world." but its late formation did not hinder its eventual success. [...] »

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