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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
Quilt Index 
Consider broaching local or women's history using a quilt as a gateway [...] »
Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy during the Cuban Missile Crisis 
From telegrams to meeting notes, this site catalogs Cuban Missile Crisis [...] »
Medicine and Madison Avenue 
Provides more than 600 health-related newspaper and magazine advertisements [...] »
History Quiz
Test your history knowledge
Memorializing Memorials 
How do we relate to national memorials? Photographs can show us how we want [...] »
Thanksgiving Dinner in 1943 
What traditional Thanksgiving foods would have been hard to come by during [...] »
Practicing Medicine on the Presidents 
When the presidents' maladies threatened to affect their performance.
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Question textbook narratives
Denmark Vesey 
Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
Since its inception, NASA has accomplished many scientific and technological [...] »
Bureau of Justice Statistics 
Everyday you read about local crime in the newspaper, but are the rates [...] »
Federal Judiciary 
Can’t tell an affadavit from an acquittal? Learn the legal lingo.
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Is the Story of George Washington and the Colt a True Story? 
Is it all right to make up stories about real people to teach children about [...] »