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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ABMC Education

Classroom activities for teaching aspects of World War I and [...] »

Women of Protest: Images from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Photograph, [Inez Milholland Boissevain. . . ], 1913, Harris & Ewing, LoC

See the suffragettes who gave over 50% of U.S. citizens the right to vote. [...] »

American Women
Photomechanical print, The awakening, Feb. 20 1915, Henry Mayer, LoC.

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Spot the President: Presidential Campaign Ads

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Voices in the Whirlwind

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Remembering All Veterans

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Slavery
Photo, "An ex-slave," 1897, New York Public Library Digital Gallery

What was it like to be a slave in 19th-century America? Accounts contrast. [...] »

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 [...] »

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 [...] »

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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Commemorate the lives of the millions of people murdered during the [...] »

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Photo, Jason Tully, a CDC laboratorian. . . , ID# 7294, 2004, James Gathany, CDC

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photo, Brown Bat, June 20, 2008, Al Hicks, U.S. Geological Survey

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Voting Rights and the 14th Amendment
Boston voter besieged by ward heelers

How did women suffer no suffrage through the 14th Amendment?

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