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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Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio

Explore Toledo, Ohio's entertainment, technological, business, and political [...] »

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

Offers 45 mini-monographs on U.S. women's history, each organized around an [...] »

Vietnam Center and Archive

Browse through a multitude of resources on Vietnam and the Vietnam War, [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Turkey Tracking

Thanksgiving—how much do you know about the history of this popular holiday [...] »

Saving Daylight

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

Voices of Women's Reform

There’s more to it than Seneca Falls.

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Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
The Tet Offensive
Eddie Adams, Vietcong shooting prisoner cropped

American historians have depicted the Tet Offensive as the turning point for [...] »

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 [...] »

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

Federal teaching resources
Military History
Photo, The Five of Hearts - Renault. . . , U.S. Army Center of Military History

The U.S. Armed Forces maintain multiple historical offices within each [...] »

National Museum of Natural History
Photo, . . . trephining [sic]. . . , 1926, Library of Congress

Don't let "natural history" scare you away! The museum covers anthropology [...] »

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Lithograph, [Patent medicine label for unnamed. . . ], 1830-1870, LoC

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has images of patents online [...] »

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American Indian Women
Kutenai woman 1910

Different kinds of power in different cultures. Perceptions of dignified and [...] »