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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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National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places

Use this website to plan and organize lessons around NPS properties and [...] »

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

Explore the history of American landscape and architectural design from 1850 [...] »

African-Americans--Biography, Autobiography, and History
Image, African-Americans--Biography, Autobiography and History, 2008, Avalon.

Read a selection of the world's greatest speeches by prominent African [...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Paradise in a Breakfast Bowl

A morning meditation on flakes: Do your morals and values help you decide [...] »

Saving Daylight

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

Close Up on Hispanic American Heritage

Take a look at these fragments from U.S. history. What are they? Where do [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
John Brown's Raid
Painting, John Brown, 1867, Thomas S. Noble, NYPL Digital Gallery

Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »

Panic of 1873
Panic as a Health Officer Cleaning the Streets

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

Labor and Trade in Colonial America
Photo, Weavers at Colonial Williamsburg, May 29, 2010, animalvegetable, Flickr

Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, [...] »

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 [...] »

Architect of the Capitol

What do our buildings tell us about ourselves? Take a spin around this [...] »

Team Ships

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

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Stonewall Jackson and the Battle of Chancellorsville
woods blown apart by artillery fire at Chancellorsville

The Confederate battle plan at Chancellorsville was extraordinarily daring [...] »