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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
Find quality websites & primary sources
Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security 
More than 350 recently declassified documents reveal previously hidden [...] »
Chicago Imagebase 
Witness the growth of the Chicago metro area with this interactive website [...] »
Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation 
Learn about the Vietnam anti-war movement through this website.
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Test your history knowledge
Close Up on Hispanic American Heritage 
Take a look at these fragments from U.S. history. What are they? Where do [...] »
Westward Expansion: Image vs. Reality 
East or West? See if you can determine which region produced these images on [...] »
First Impressions: The U.S. and Japan 
In 1854, Japan signed a treaty with the U.S. How did the U.S. and Japan see [...] »
Beyond the Textbook
Question textbook narratives
Panic of 1873 
Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States [...] »
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger 
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »
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
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Meet the largest governmental funder of humanities programs in the U.S.
[...] »National Portrait Gallery 
Allow students to "meet" their favorite historical figures.
[...] »U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
The government acts for fauna as well as society. When did this start? Why [...] »
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Reagan's "Rising Tide" 
Economic policy during the Reagan Administration
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