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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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Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements
Film, Color experiment: Pouring Coca-Cola can, 1964, McCann-Erickson, LoC.

Archives 50 Coca-Cola commercials, broadcast outtakes, and experimental [...] »

Here is New York

View photographs taken by everyday people as they came to terms with the 9/ [...] »

African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

View 1,300 pieces of sheet music composed by and about African Americans. [...] »

History Quiz

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Saving Daylight

Politicians get hot under the collar when discussing the hottest of topics— [...] »

New World Wonders

How did explorers describe the plants and animals they discovered in America [...] »

Presidential Moments: Inaugural Addresses

Can you match these famous first words with their presidential speakers?

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Beyond the Textbook

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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 [...] »

Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

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

The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger
Dynamics of Idealism- Volunteers for Civil Rights, 1965-1982 432x240

Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »

National Resources

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U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk

A comprehensive current and historical look at this legislative body and its [...] »

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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Federal Judiciary

Can’t tell an affadavit from an acquittal? Learn the legal lingo.

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Civilization is All Relative

Common misconceptions of the classification of civilization are debunked. [...] »