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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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Picturing Modern America Project

Create your own thematic exhibits using Library of Congress images.

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Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963

Peruse this collection of over 900 items relating to Chicago's Hull House to [...] »

Plymouth Colony Archive Project

Documents and analytical essays emphasize the social history of Plymouth [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Go West, Young Woman!

Men and women both settled the West. Answer these questions on women’s [...] »

Women's History Month: Picturing Pocahontas

What do you picture when you hear her name?

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The Big Picture: Match the Ad to the Year

Be it the radio or the television, the slogans related to popular or [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Women's Reform Movement
Print, A downright gabbler, or a goose that deserves to be hissed, 1829

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 reflected the voices of [...] »

The Tet Offensive
Eddie Adams, Vietcong shooting prisoner cropped

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

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 [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
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 [...] »

U.S. Mint

A magician may be able to pull coins out of thin air, but most of us can't [...] »

Team Ships

Learn the basic steps to building and commissioning a Navy vessel.

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The Memphis Belle
The crew of the Memphis Belle complete their 25th mission. U.S. Air Force.

The last operational mission of a venerable World War II airplane.

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