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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Idea of America
Photo, Head of rural family asking. . ., 1940, Dorothea Lange, Flickr Commons

The U.S. was formed on ideals, but how do these ideals manifest in reality? [...] »

Politics of a Massacre: Discovering Wilmington 1898

This site contains sources covering and reacting to the deplorable 1898 [...] »

The Eastman Project: Images of California Life
Photo, Carguero pasando bajo. . . , 2008, José Antonio Galloso, Flickr, cc

View more than 13,200 photographs of California labor and community life [...] »

History Quiz

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California or Bust

Who went west when? Answer questions about migration from 1935 to 2000.

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Manias of the Gilded Age

Fads, crotchets, crazes, rages, and cultural fevers. Test your knowledge of [...] »

The Big Picture: Match the Ad to the Year

Be it the radio or the television, the slogans related to popular or [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

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Causes of the American Revolution
Broadside, A card, New York, 1774, LoC, rbpe 10700100

What were the causes of the American Revolution? They were more complicated [...] »

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Photo, Barking Frog, Mark A. Musselman, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The government acts for fauna as well as society. When did this start? Why [...] »

National Endowment for the Humanities

Meet the largest governmental funder of humanities programs in the U.S.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Charts, "Educational Attainment," Bureau of Labor Statistics

Is your grandfather more likely to be working now than he would have been in [...] »

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Breaking the Confederate Line at Antietam
Litho., Lincoln and McClellan, Brady National Photographic Art Gallery, 1862.

Hour by hour account of how Union Generals moved on the battlefield at [...] »