Welcome to History Content

Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress
In Website Reviews
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)
In Website Reviews
With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty
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
Portal to Texas History
Postcard of Woman, n.d., Portal to Texas History

Texas educators, looking for primary resources on state history? Search this [...] »

Spain, The United States, and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas

If you need primary sources on the Spanish in North America, try this site [...] »

Utah Digital Newspapers

Browse Utah newspapers from 1879 through modern day.

[...] »

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Stamping Out Free Speech?

The Stamp Act of 1765 had colonists crying foul. Answer these questions [...] »

Voices of Women's Reform

There’s more to it than Seneca Falls.

[...] »
Practicing Medicine on the Presidents

When the presidents' maladies threatened to affect their performance.

[...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Girls’ Labor and Leisure in the Progressive Era
Photographic Print, Protest against child labor in a labor parade, 1909 May 1, L

The historical impact young girls had on the Progressive Era is often [...] »

Coal and the Industrial Revolution
Photo, At the close of the day, January 1911, Lewis Hine, Library of Congress

How can the story of coal help students understand the nature of today's [...] »

The Tet Offensive
Eddie Adams, Vietcong shooting prisoner cropped

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

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency

How did recreational drug use grow into a U.S. drug culture? How did it [...] »

Indian Health Service
Photo, "Baby being weighed by nurse," IHS, 1887-1969, Dept. of Health

Disease ravaged colonial-era Native American populations. What health [...] »

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 [...] »

Ask a Historian

Court Packing Controversies
U. S. Supreme Court, ca. 1860-65, Mathew Brady

What do Presidents Ulysses Grant and Franklin Roosevelt have in common? Both [...] »