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Notre Dame, Chartres, France. 1145-1220.

Explore U.S. architectural styles and ornamentation, or date the buildings in your town.

Digital Archive of American Architecture
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Photo, [Children Playing], Duke University

Witness the U.S. Army's occupation of Bohol through the eyes of officer George Percival Scriven.

George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901
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Photo, The Regional Archives in San Francisco, NARA Pacific Region

Delve into more than 85 million records related to U.S. history.

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Spotlight on Elementary Education

History has been shaped and influenced by the out come of ancient trials—such as the Trial of Socrates in 399B.C.—to Rosenberg Trial in the 1950s. This site offers a comprehensive look at 50 prominent court trials throughout history and its resources can be used to give young learners an introduction to the history of the modern judicial system.

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Website Reviews

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The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Read 10 unpublished Hurston plays based on her anthropological studies of [...] »

Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
Pamphlet, Angela Davis is Innocent, 1970, University of Washington

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A Southern Mill Village: History of Old West Durham

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New World Wonders

How did explorers describe the plants and animals they discovered in America [...] »

Socks to War

Even humble, everyday artifacts have a rich place in history.

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Alien Invasions

For each pair of animal and plant species, identify the one that is not [...] »

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Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Slavery
Photo, "An ex-slave," 1897, New York Public Library Digital Gallery

What was it like to be a slave in 19th-century America? Accounts contrast. [...] »

Coal and the Industrial Revolution
Photo, At the close of the day, January 1911, Lewis Hine, Library of Congress

How can the story of coal help students understand the nature of today's [...] »

Jim Crow Segregation: The Difficult and Anti-Democratic Work of White Supremacy
Print, For the Sunny South. An Airship. . . , 1913, Library of Congress

The fight against segregation and its discriminatory practices does not [...] »

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Federal Trade Commission
Woodcut, Igirisujin Yokohama. . . , 1861, Sadahide Utagawa, LoC

Keeping businesses on the straight and narrow. Discover more about the [...] »

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Screenshot, "U.S. History Topics," Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

More than 1,600 learning resources from the federal government sorted by [...] »

U.S. Mint

A magician may be able to pull coins out of thin air, but most of us can't [...] »

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Jewish Immigration During the Revolutionary War
Robert Morris, Geo Washington, and Haym Salomon monument, Chicago

Just before the Revolution, between 2,000 and 3,000 Jews lived in the [...] »

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