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Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
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Agents of Social Change: 20th-Century Women's Activism
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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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Mission to Arizona, 1916–1940: Father Augustine Schwarz, O.F.M. 
View 179 images of Catholic missionary and Native American life in Arizona [...] »
Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s ![Print, [Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book], c. 1951, Library of Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/ByPopularDemand432x240.jpg?itok=T83wR-fM "Print, [Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book], c. 1951, Library of Congress")
Learn about race in American sports history through the life of Jackie [...] »
A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 
We all know the role of the wagon in westward expansion, but what of ships [...] »
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Textbook Twisters: Cuban Missile Crisis 
The Cuban Missile Crisis was one of the greatest conflicts between the US [...] »
Plays You Won't See in the Superbowl 
Football has always been a great American sport, but how much do you know [...] »
Exploration and Innovation 
Crossing vast oceans required specialized tools and knowledge. Discover more [...] »
Beyond the Textbook
Question textbook narratives
The Tet Offensive 
American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for [...] »
Denmark Vesey 
Tried and executed in 1822, along with many other slaves, for a plotted [...] »
John Brown's Raid 
Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
Tennessee Valley Authority 
Read the act that gave way to the Tennessee Valley Authority, a major New [...] »
Federal Aviation Administration 
The FAA regulates air safety and influences the development of civil [...] »
National Museum of Natural History ![Photo, . . . trephining [sic]. . . , 1926, Library of Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/NationalMuseumNH432x240.jpg?itok=rqsMmArM "Photo, The crude method of trephining [sic] with the sharpened edge of a stone practiced by peoples living in Peru some 500 or 600 years ago is revealed by the skulls at the National Museum, 1926, Library of Congress")
Don't let "natural history" scare you away! The museum covers anthropology [...] »
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Feminist Art 
Explorations of the body, self-reference, and the entanglement of art and [...] »