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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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Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860

What were common presidential campaign strategies between 1840 and 1860?

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Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars

More than 30 letters cover conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the War [...] »

Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Photo, Los Angeles Public Library, October 25, 2009, Lisa Newton, Flickr

Covering Californian urban history? Search more than 275,000 digitized [...] »

History Quiz

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The Garden of Infants

Kindergarten came to America in the 19th century on a wave of German [...] »

Textbook Twisters: Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the greatest conflicts between the US [...] »

To the Source!

Where do historians turn for historical evidence?

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Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
The Tet Offensive
Eddie Adams, Vietcong shooting prisoner cropped

American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for [...] »

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Selective Service System
Lithograph, Don't wait for the draft--Volunteer, 1917, Library of Congress

Did you know that the draft was used in times of peace, as well as war?

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Architect of the Capitol

What do our buildings tell us about ourselves? Take a spin around this [...] »

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

American art makes the interpretive nature of historical knowledge clear. [...] »

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Keep Your Top Eye Open
Poster, "Caution, Colored People of Boston!," 1851, Boston Public Library.

Boston abolitionists on the lookout for slave-catchers in 1851.

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