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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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The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip 
Archives audio files of more than 700 folk tunes recorded in the South in [...] »
Architecture and Interior Design for America: 1935-1955 
Explore early 20th century architecture and interior design with this [...] »
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive 
150 oral history interviews and 16 collections of documents address the [...] »
History Quiz
Test your history knowledge
Plays You Won't See in the Superbowl 
Football has always been a great American sport, but how much do you know [...] »
Baseball in Black and White 
Baseball might be America's favorite past time, but it has not always been [...] »
From War to Revolution 
Can you answer these questions on figures who took part in the French and [...] »
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 [...] »
John Brown's Raid 
Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »
Jim Crow Segregation: The Difficult and Anti-Democratic Work of White Supremacy 
The fight against segregation and its discriminatory practices does not [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 
Design embodies both artistic ingenuity and responses to everyday problems [...] »
U.S. Geological Survey 
How has land use altered over time, and what did the explorers encounter? [...] »
Peace Corps 
Explore world and U.S. history simultaneously through universal development [...] »
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Russian Ships at Pearl Harbor? 
Playing the game of alternative history—do what-ifs and if-onlys have a [...] »