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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

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Famous Trials

Presents balanced treatments of over 50 prominent court trials, including [...] »

CIA Electronic Reading Room
Document, Letter to J. William Leonard from Edmund Cohen, April 15 2006, CIA.

Digitally serves thousands of formerly secret documents in compliance with [...] »

Tennessee 4 Me

Three years in the making, this project of the Tennessee State Museum [...] »

History Quiz

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Veterans Day: Medals and Merit

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

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The California Gold Rush

"Seeing the elephant" in California.

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As American as Mom…

You know Mother's Day is all about mom, but do you know the history of the [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Jim Crow Segregation: The Difficult and Anti-Democratic Work of White Supremacy
Print, For the Sunny South. An Airship. . . , 1913, Library of Congress

The fight against segregation and its discriminatory practices does not [...] »

The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger
Dynamics of Idealism- Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982 432x240

Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »

Huey Long
Stereograph, U.S. Senator Huey Long, c.1933, Keystone View Company

How exactly did U.S. Senator Huey Long intend to end poverty across the U.S [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

American art makes the interpretive nature of historical knowledge clear. [...] »

National Museum of African Art

Approach African American history and culture through African art.

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U.S. Mint

A magician may be able to pull coins out of thin air, but most of us can't [...] »

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Feminist Art

Explorations of the body, self-reference, and the entanglement of art and [...] »