Welcome to History Content

Spain, The United States, and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
In Website Reviews
A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair
In Website Reviews

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.

FIND OUT MORE »

Website Reviews

Find quality websites & primary sources
The Vietnam Project

A highly comprehensive look at the Vietnam War.

[...] »
Forests, Fields, and the Falls

How did the lumber, flour, sawmill, and farming industries shape Minnesota's [...] »

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum

Peruse this national source for all things Eisenhower.

[...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Plays You Won't See in the Superbowl

Football has always been a great American sport, but how much do you know [...] »

Women in Blues (and Jazz)

In the early 20th century, the new music recording industry embraced [...] »

Presidential Moments: Campaigns

Think the mudslinging in modern campaigns is bad? Campaigns have always been [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
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 [...] »

Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

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

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
Supreme Court of the United States

From John Jay to Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court is the final word in law [...] »

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, the nation's [...] »

National Museum of African Art

Approach African American history and culture through African art.

[...] »

Ask a Historian

Success and Failure in the New World
engraving, Croatoan, uploaded 14 May 2010, Flickr CC

Why did some colonies in the New World succeed while others faded away?

[...] »