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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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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Ad, The Florida Agriculturist, August 15, 1906, p. 517, LoC, Text removed

What happened between 1880 and 1910 in the area where you live?

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Augustana College Library, Digital Projects

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Woman's Legal History Biography Project

How many female lawyers can you think of in U.S. history?

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Theatre of the People

Through performing art, U.S. minorities assert their identities. Answer [...] »

Paradise in a Breakfast Bowl

A morning meditation on flakes: Do your morals and values help you decide [...] »

Voices of Women's Reform

There’s more to it than Seneca Falls.

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Coal and the Industrial Revolution
Photo, At the close of the day, January 1911, Lewis Hine, Library of Congress

How can the story of coal help students understand the nature of today'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 [...] »

Denmark Vesey
An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes, 1822

Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted [...] »

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U.S. Army
Photo, The 101st Airborne troops move out of Bastogne. . . , 1944, U.S. Army

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Federal Judiciary

Can’t tell an affadavit from an acquittal? Learn the legal lingo.

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National Atlas

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The Disaster of Innovation

How the cotton gin revolutionized the use of slaves and the production of [...] »

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