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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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Digital Scriptorium

12 collections provide primary sources on ads, health and medicine, the [...] »

History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Local newspaper research to broaden understanding of American’s knowledge of [...] »

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Through oral history interviews, audio files, texts, and other primary [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Memorializing Memorials

How do we relate to national memorials? Photographs can show us how we want [...] »

Dance, But Not That Way . . .

Do you know how to dance the Sleigh Bell Polka? Learn the proper way to [...] »

Presidential Moments: Campaigns

Think the mudslinging in modern campaigns is bad? Campaigns have always been [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Girls’ Labor and Leisure in the Progressive Era
Photographic Print, Protest against child labor in a labor parade, 1909 May 1, L

The historical impact young girls had on the Progressive Era is often [...] »

Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

Beginning in Europe, the Panic of 1873 quickly spread to the United States [...] »

Causing the Civil War
Postcard, Train Load of Cotton for Export, South, 1902-1903, NYPL

Did King Cotton cause the Civil War? Or should you look further?

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National Resources

Federal teaching resources
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Lithograph, [Patent medicine label for unnamed. . . ], 1830-1870, LoC

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has images of patents online [...] »

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Commemorate the lives of the millions of people murdered during the [...] »

Preserve America

Preserve America is a White House initiative uniting the work of 11 federal [...] »

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Premonition of Death

Accounts of Abraham Lincoln's dream of a presidential assassination vary, [...] »