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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
Find quality websites & primary sources
American Memory Learning Page 
Try lesson plans based on the Library of Congress' American Memory [...] »
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties 
Sit back and enjoy folk and popular music recordings from 1930s California [...] »
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada 
Interested in researching business history? You may want to contact an [...] »
History Quiz
Test your history knowledge
Presidential Moments: Inaugural Addresses 
Can you match these famous first words with their presidential speakers?
[...] »Thanksgiving: Presidential Turkeys 
How many turkeys have presidents pardoned?
[...] »By the Numbers: Election Maps 
What can historical election maps tell us? Take a look at the electoral vote [...] »
Beyond the Textbook
Question textbook narratives
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger 
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »
Labor and Trade in Colonial America 
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, [...] »
Causes of the American Revolution 
What were the causes of the American Revolution? They were more complicated [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
Bureau of Justice Statistics 
Everyday you read about local crime in the newspaper, but are the rates [...] »
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 
Design embodies both artistic ingenuity and responses to everyday problems [...] »
Central Intelligence Agency 
You've seen spy movies, but what is the real history of U.S. [...] »
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The History of History 
"Historian" wasn't always a career path—only in the 19th century did it [...] »