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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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Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Photo, Los Angeles Public Library, October 25, 2009, Lisa Newton, Flickr

Covering Californian urban history? Search more than 275,000 digitized [...] »

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
Video still, Assembling a generator, Westinghouse works, 1904, LoC.

A collection of resources pertaining to the Westinghouse Works company, [...] »

The Pilgrims in American Culture: Thanksgiving

Were the Pilgrims really shorter than us? Discover the answer to all your [...] »

History Quiz

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Fly Away Jim Crow

Equality requires more than a Proclamation. Try to answer these questions on [...] »

Victory Vegetables

WWII Victory Gardens allowed citizens to raise food...and wage war!

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America's Love for the Automobile

An Exciting Whiff of Danger or La Belle Dame sans Merci?

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Beyond the Textbook

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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 [...] »

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

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Architect of the Capitol

What do our buildings tell us about ourselves? Take a spin around this [...] »

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Photo, Kids watching rockets at the Summer Adventure, LANL site

Follow the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction through the protection [...] »

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, the nation's [...] »