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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Website Reviews

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Library of Southern Literature
Mark Twain, 1835-1910 Life on the Mississippi LA SALLE CANOEING

Full texts of more than 130 works of literature by more than 75 Southern [...] »

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Watch and listen to thousands of public broadcasting programs from across [...] »

Automobile in American Life and Society
Hartford auto-jack advertisement, 1911, Automobile in American Life and Society

Enter the world of automotive history through oral histories and scholarly [...] »

History Quiz

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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 [...] »

Women's History Month: Picturing Pocahontas

What do you picture when you hear her name?

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Who Won the War (of 1812)?

How do textbooks from different countries treat the War of 1812?

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Beyond the Textbook

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

The "go-green" movement is rampant in modern America. However, support for [...] »

Causes of the American Revolution
Broadside, A card, New York, 1774, LoC, rbpe 10700100

What were the causes of the American Revolution? They were more complicated [...] »

National Resources

Federal teaching resources
Voice of America

Find out how to pronounce tricky names, and listen to official international [...] »

National Museum of the American Indian

Make sure that your students know not all Native Americans lived in tipis or [...] »

Architect of the Capitol

What do our buildings tell us about ourselves? Take a spin around this [...] »

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Cold War Wrestling Match
1961, B&W photo, Meeting in Vienna: JFK and Khrushchev, Presidential Library

How political cartoons illustrate international events and the artists [...] »