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Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
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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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Website Reviews

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Hannah Arendt Papers
Document. Essays and lectures---"The Impact of Marx,"

Do you read German? Not to worry. Select documents are available in English [...] »

Seneca Village

One of the few resources dedicated to Seneca Village and the creation of [...] »

Memoirs v. Tapes: President Nixon and the December Bombings

Was Nixon as reluctant to initiate the Christmas bombing as his memoirs [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Playing History

Board games preserve the past in squares, paper money, and toy tokens. [...] »

Celebrate More Than St. Patrick

The Irish contributed more to the U.S. than shamrocks and folktales.

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Early American Artifacts

What did people living in what is now known as North America leave behind? [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
John Brown's Raid
Painting, John Brown, 1867, Thomas S. Noble, NYPL Digital Gallery

Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »

Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

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

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 [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Photo, Kids watching rockets at the Summer Adventure, LANL site

Follow the development of Weapons of Mass Destruction through the protection [...] »

National Endowment for the Humanities

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

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Modern art isn't impossible to understand. Approach it as the product of its [...] »

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A History of Fundamentalism
Evangelist Billy Sunday

What does fundamentalism mean and how has that meaning changed over time? [...] »