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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Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage

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Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: The Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
Photograph, Police Station after damage by lynching mob, Duluth., 1920, MHS Phot

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The California Gold Rush

"Seeing the elephant" in California.

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Fly Away Jim Crow

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The Early Conservation Movement
photographic print, Quentin Roosevelt Planting a Tree, c1904, Edward S. Curtis,

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

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Denmark Vesey
An official report of the trials of sundry Negroes, 1822

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Black Confederates

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