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Three significant changes affect how we teach history and who is teaching it.

Significant Changes in Teaching History over the Past Decade
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A morning meditation on flakes: Do your morals and values help you decide which cereal to eat in the morning?

Paradise in a Breakfast Bowl
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Specifications, Model "D" Palace Touring car; Price $ 2750.00, 1909, NYPL

Curious about early cars? View more than 800 automobile manufacturer catalog images from 1909.

Manufacturers' Catalogs from the First Decade of American Automobiles
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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

Find quality websites & primary sources
Supreme Court Historical Society

The U.S. Supreme Court has shaped American ideals into practice since 1789, [...] »

Oral History Digital Collection
Image, Oral History Digital Collection.

In full-text narratives, more than 2,000 people from northeast Ohio discuss [...] »

Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Discover the life of pragmatist and education reform advocate John Dewey ( [...] »

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History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Textbook Twisters: Salem Witch Trials

Burn the witch! Discover how historical coverage of the Salem Witch Trials [...] »

Presidents Day: Growing Up to Be President

Even American presidents were babies once!

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American Personalities: Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty

Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty are popular American icons. How much do you know [...] »

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Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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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National Resources

Federal teaching resources
U.S. Marine Corps

Why are the Marines known as "America's 911 Force"? Explore this division of [...] »

National Institute for Literacy
Photo, "Artis struisvogel leest krant van oppasser,"1951, Flickr Commons

Do you have struggling readers in your class? Try incorporating literacy [...] »

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

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Great Expectations for the Civil War
Gelatin silver print, Hine, Lewis Wickes,Hitching Up the Team, NY Public Library

Many believed the Civil War would be a short, bloodless battle. The reality [...] »

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