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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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Website Reviews
Find quality websites & primary sources
The Eastman Project: Images of California Life 
View more than 13,200 photographs of California labor and community life [...] »
Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns 
Enjoy an interactive experience depicting the life of Mark Twain.
[...] »Red White Blue & Brimstone: New World Literature and the American Millennium 
Texts throughout U.S. history have featured imagery from the Book of [...] »
History Quiz
Test your history knowledge
To the Source! 
Where do historians turn for historical evidence?
[...] »Thanksgiving Dinner in 1943 
What traditional Thanksgiving foods would have been hard to come by during [...] »
Westward Expansion: Image vs. Reality 
East or West? See if you can determine which region produced these images on [...] »
Beyond the Textbook
Question textbook narratives
The Modern Civil Rights Movement: A River of Purposeful Anger 
Textbooks are silent about defining race and racism, even though the modern [...] »
Labor and Trade in Colonial America 
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, [...] »
Rise of the Automobile 
Americans today take cars for granted. How did they change American life? [...] »
National Resources
Federal teaching resources
Center for Disease Control and Prevention 
For when those historical figures suffered conditions you don't recognize. [...] »
National Agricultural Statistics Service 
Why did George Washington start gathering national data on agriculture?
[...] »Federal Resources for Educational Excellence 
More than 1,600 learning resources from the federal government sorted by [...] »
Ask a Historian
What If...?: Reexamining the American Revolution 
How different would "the United States of America" be if the British had won [...] »