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Explore the layout and businesses of turn-of-the-century Dallas.

Murphy and Bolanz: Block and Addition Books, Dallas County 1880-1920
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Peruse this collection of over 900 items relating to Chicago's Hull House to discover its influence on 20th century urban development.

Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
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Photo. Linotype on press car. 1910's. LOC

What American history items do Smithsonian curators like best?

HistoryWired: A Few of Our Favorite Things
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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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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 [...] »

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Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Illustration, The Foreign Legion, June 1918, Boy's Own Paper.

Cover art and full texts from dime novels preserve the popular culture of an [...] »

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History Quiz

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When Whales Lit the World

Up to the 20th century, whalers provided oil for the industrial revolution. [...] »

A-mouldering in the Grave

"John Brown's Body" keeps reappearing. What do you know about the song?

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First Ladies' Firsts

What about the other occupants of the White House?

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Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
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 [...] »

Causes of the American Revolution
Broadside, A card, New York, 1774, LoC, rbpe 10700100

What were the causes of the American Revolution? They were more complicated [...] »

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 [...] »

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National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Federal Judicial Center
Photo, Harry Anstead. . . , 2000, Newhall Photography, Flickr Commons

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for federal [...] »

Federal Trade Commission
Woodcut, Igirisujin Yokohama. . . , 1861, Sadahide Utagawa, LoC

Keeping businesses on the straight and narrow. Discover more about the [...] »

U.S. Army
Photo, The 101st Airborne troops move out of Bastogne. . . , 1944, U.S. Army

Increase your knowledge of the people, past, and technology of the United [...] »

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You Must Be This Old to Govern
Painting, "Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States," 1940,

25, 30, 35. We all know these ages are part of the requirements for elected [...] »

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