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.

FIND OUT MORE »

Website Reviews

Find quality websites & primary sources
Alexander Street Press
Poster, Images of America: A History of American Life.., Alexander Street Press.

Databases of digitized firsthand accounts and literary works document [...] »

Carnegie Libraries of California
Photo, Los Angeles/Cahuenga, Pat & Bernie Skehan, Carnegie Libraries of CA.

Learn about the California libraries built with Carnegie funding.

[...] »
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Photographs
Photo, Meal possibly for homeless men, Seattle, Dec. 23, 1932, Univ. of Wash.

Close to 200 photographs document the work of Federal Emergency Relief [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Fashion Maven

Do you have your mother's—and her mother's—fashion sense?

[...] »
Reading Photographs: Snow Day

When was this winter photo taken? See what clues you can spot!

[...] »
Probing Probate

How do we know what people in the past owned and valued?

[...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
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 [...] »

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 [...] »

20th-century Jewish Immigration
Dry plate negative, approx. 1920-1930, Jewish colonies and settlements, LOC

Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
U.S. Navy

Who defends our seas, and how do they do it? Explore primary sources and [...] »

Smithsonian
Negative, Dinsmore, Frances. Of Smithsonian. . . , 1915, Harris & Ewing, LoC

What can 19 museums, nine research centers, and the National Zoo offer your [...] »

Federal Reserve Board

The economy's on everyone's mind. Take advantage of that fact to teach a bit [...] »