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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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Website Reviews

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Lakota Winter Counts

Displays, explains, and interprets the Lakota pictorial histories known as [...] »

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

Aside from Benedict Arnold, how much do you know about Revolutionary War [...] »

Digital Archive of American Architecture
Notre Dame, Chartres, France. 1145-1220.

Explore U.S. architectural styles and ornamentation, or date the buildings [...] »

History Quiz

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In Dr. King's Words

People can identify (some of) the words of Martin Luther King Jr. Can you [...] »

Veterans Day: Medals and Merit

You know the Purple Heart, but can you identify these honors?

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Drafting Music

Both the North and South instituted drafts during the Civil War. Popular [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Society for History in the Federal Government
Transparency, U.S. Capitol exteriors, c. 1920-1950, Theodor Horydczak, LoC

Represents historians across executive, judicial, and congressional [...] »

National Park Service
Screencapture, FDR Memorial, National Park Service homepage

Lesson plans, essays, multimedia, activities, and artifacts of U.S. heritage [...] »

Government Printing Office
Photo, Headlines posted in street. . , 1940, Jack Delano, Flickr Commons

GPO is the Federal Government's resource for preserving and providing access [...] »

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Are There Instances of Raids Similar to the Boston Tea Party?
re-enactment, Chestertown, Maryland tea party

From South Carolina to Maine, colonists protested the Tea Act of 1773.

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