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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An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
Cover, How to dance. A complete ball-room and party guide, 1878, LoC

This collection of social dance manuals showcases the social history of [...] »

HERB: Social History for Every Classroom
Illustration, Americans, all, let's fight. . ., 1943, Leon Helguera, UNT

Find a wide variety of classroom resources focused on social history, from [...] »

Jewish Women's Archive

Learn more about American Jewish women's contributions to their communities [...] »

History Quiz

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Probing Probate

How do we know what people in the past owned and valued?

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Fashion Maven

Do you have your mother's—and her mother's—fashion sense?

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Airplane Meals

Think you're a post-WWII expert? Test your knowledge with this quiz on the [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Slavery
Photo, "An ex-slave," 1897, New York Public Library Digital Gallery

What was it like to be a slave in 19th-century America? Accounts contrast. [...] »

The Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
photographic print, Second atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945 August, LOC

Controversial issues are often simplified in textbooks. Discover the facts [...] »

Huey Long
Stereograph, U.S. Senator Huey Long, c.1933, Keystone View Company

How exactly did U.S. Senator Huey Long intend to end poverty across the U.S [...] »

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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Graph, "Sentences for those convicted in federal court," BJS

Everyday you read about local crime in the newspaper, but are the rates [...] »

U.S. Geological Survey
Photo, Brown Bat, June 20, 2008, Al Hicks, U.S. Geological Survey

How has land use altered over time, and what did the explorers encounter? [...] »

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Commemorate the lives of the millions of people murdered during the [...] »

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New England Puritans
Puritans going to church, Samuel Appleton, 1884, Library of Congress

Trying to build a New Jerusalem on the coast of Massachusetts.

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