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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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One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
Photo, Party 'nature sliding' on the perpetual snow slopes, NARA

Relive the 20th century through iconic imagery—more than 70 photographs [...] »

ABMC War Dead Database

Features over 224,000 records of individuals buried or memorialized in ABMC [...] »

The Official Leonard Bernstein Site

Explore the life of a major classical conductor.

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History Quiz

Test your history knowledge
Which Witch?

Words constantly evolve and change over time. What did "witch" mean to these [...] »

Food 50 Years Ago

Is your favorite food a recent invention?

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From War to Revolution

Can you answer these questions on figures who took part in the French and [...] »

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives
Huey Long
Stereograph, U.S. Senator Huey Long, c.1933, Keystone View Company

How exactly did U.S. Senator Huey Long intend to end poverty across the U.S [...] »

Jim Crow Segregation: The Difficult and Anti-Democratic Work of White Supremacy
Print, For the Sunny South. An Airship. . . , 1913, Library of Congress

The fight against segregation and its discriminatory practices does not [...] »

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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Peace Corps

Explore world and U.S. history simultaneously through universal development [...] »

Tennessee Valley Authority

Read the act that gave way to the Tennessee Valley Authority, a major New [...] »

National Postal Museum
Ink on paper, Kodak advertisement, c. 1942, National Postal Museum

When going postal is actually a good thing! Explore the Museum's extensive [...] »

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Alternative Outcomes of World War II
Germany, March 1945 - Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and Hodges, LOC

Can historians answer questions about alternate history? No, but they can [...] »