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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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Harvesting the River
Photo, Mussel Harvester, Pearl, Illinois, Marshall County Historical Society.

Explore river life—with a particular focus on food harvesting.

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Abraham Lincoln Papers
Image, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Home Page Graphic Captions, Library of Congress.

Approximately 20,000 documents provide a window into President Abraham [...] »

Jewish American History on the Web
Daguerreotype, Solomon N. Carvalho, 1850, Incidents of Travel and..., LoC.

An impressive website for the study of Jews and Judaism in the United States [...] »

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Sand, Sea, and Oil: Operation Desert Storm

It's in the name: "Desert." How did the environment affect the Persian Gulf [...] »

The Big Picture: Match the Ad to the Year

Be it the radio or the television, the slogans related to popular or [...] »

Back to School

Binders, buses, and backpacks—consider the history of these back-to-school [...] »

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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 [...] »

Huey Long
Stereograph, U.S. Senator Huey Long, c.1933, Keystone View Company

How exactly did U.S. Senator Huey Long intend to end poverty across the U.S [...] »

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 [...] »

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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Official poster, Veterans Day, 2008, United Staes Department of Veteran Affairs

Learn about the men who fought for American ideals and survived.

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Peace Corps

Explore world and U.S. history simultaneously through universal development [...] »

Preserve America

Preserve America is a White House initiative uniting the work of 11 federal [...] »

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Selling a Slave
Receipt for sale of a slave boy named George, November 6, 1833. National Archiv

The obstacles and restraints on disposing of one's human "property."

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