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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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California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California, 1849-1900 
40,000 written pages and more than 3,000 illustrations provide accounts of [...] »
Landmark Supreme Court Cases 
Intimidated by teaching legal history? Find resources for thinking about and [...] »
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History 
Beautiful scenery or impassable peaks? These 17 in-depth essays analyze how [...] »
History Quiz
Test your history knowledge
Victory Vegetables 
WWII Victory Gardens allowed citizens to raise food...and wage war!
[...] »Go West, Young Woman! 
Men and women both settled the West. Answer these questions on women’s [...] »
Exploration and Innovation 
Crossing vast oceans required specialized tools and knowledge. Discover more [...] »
Beyond the Textbook
Question textbook narratives
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger 
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »
The Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki 
Controversial issues are often simplified in textbooks. Discover the facts [...] »
John Brown's Raid 
Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
National Endowment for the Humanities 
Meet the largest governmental funder of humanities programs in the U.S.
[...] »National Institute for Literacy 
Do you have struggling readers in your class? Try incorporating literacy [...] »
National Museum of African American History and Culture 
What does it mean to be an American? Answer this question through the lens [...] »
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Namesake of a Peacekeeper 
Historians have attempted to account for the great admiration that whites [...] »