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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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Ballyhoo!: Posters as Portraiture

Think of all the celebrity advertisements you see everyday. Why pick that [...] »

Alexander Street Press
Poster, Images of America: A History of American Life.., Alexander Street Press.

Databases of digitized firsthand accounts and literary works document [...] »

Eugenics Archive
Poster, Race characters do not die out..., 1920, American Philosophical Society.

Traces the history of the eugenics movement in the United States.

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Practicing Medicine on the Presidents

When the presidents' maladies threatened to affect their performance.

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Plays You Won't See in the Superbowl

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

We the People . . . Rarely Agree

What does the Constitution mean to you? Match each quote to the historical [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

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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 [...] »

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? [...] »

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 [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
U.S. Army
Photo, The 101st Airborne troops move out of Bastogne. . . , 1944, U.S. Army

Increase your knowledge of the people, past, and technology of the United [...] »

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Charts, "Educational Attainment," Bureau of Labor Statistics

Is your grandfather more likely to be working now than he would have been in [...] »

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

American art makes the interpretive nature of historical knowledge clear. [...] »

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America Abroad
Asst Sec Navy Roosevelt at the Naval War College

Isolated and expansive at the same time.

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