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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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Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
Photo, Portrait of Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, faces..., June 27 1961, LoC.

View the mid-20th-century art scene through the photographs of music and [...] »

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Illustration, The American Rattle Snake, 1782, New-York Historical Society.

Designed for historians and educators, this site provides high-quality [...] »

A Curriculum of United States Labor History for Teachers

Learn about labor politics and economics throughout American history.

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Practicing Medicine on the Presidents

When the presidents' maladies threatened to affect their performance.

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Reading Photographs: MacArthur and Hirohito

How would you have planned this photograph if you were General MacArthur? [...] »

Drafting Music

Both the North and South instituted drafts during the Civil War. Popular [...] »

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Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

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

Causing the Civil War
Postcard, Train Load of Cotton for Export, South, 1902-1903, NYPL

Did King Cotton cause the Civil War? Or should you look further?

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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 [...] »

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
Negative, Victory Corps. . . , Alfred T. Palmer, September-October 1942, LoC

Did you know that there is a specific law enforcement agency for firearm [...] »

U.S. Secret Service

How did the Secret Service begin protecting our leaders and solving crimes [...] »

U.S. Department of Education

Use the resources offered by the Department of Education to help you become [...] »

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Forty Acres and a Mule
Charleston in ruins 1865, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

The origin of the "Sherman Reservation" in Special Field Order No. 15, by [...] »