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The "Star-Spangled Banner" is a crucial emblem of the United States. However, do you know the origins of the very first American flag or the actual meaning of Francis Scott Key's lyrics? This website produced by the Smithsonian Institute can be used in a variety of ways to teach students about this important national icon. FIND OUT MORE »

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Map, Environs of Shreveport. . .  1864, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Gilmer. . . site

Explore the Civil War-era South through hand-drawn maps and renderings. [...] »

Screenshot, People's Pie, iCivics

Games can be more than mindless fluff. When content-rich, they can engage your [...] »

Photo, Mrs. Nelson Greene and Baby, Sept. 1938, William Pryor, New Deal Network.

Discover how FDR's New Deal impacted life in small town America. [...] »

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Magazine cover, Harper's Bazaar--Thanksgiving 1894, 1894, Louis Rhead, LoC

Thanksgiving—you know the mythology and history behind the Pilgrims' [...] »

Christopher Columbus—a legend without a face? Answer these questions [...] »

Negative, ". . . Woman of the future. . . ," 1939, Gottscho-Schleisner Inc., LoC

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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.? [...] »

Dry plate negative, approx. 1920-1930, Jewish colonies and settlements, LOC

Divided into two waves of immigration by textbooks, the continuity of cultural [...] »

Print, For the Sunny South. An Airship. . . , 1913, Library of Congress

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

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Lithograph, Blackburn, 2002, Ron Adams, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Approach African American history and culture through African art. [...] »

Photo, The Five of Hearts - Renault. . . , U.S. Army Center of Military History

The U.S. Armed Forces maintain multiple historical offices within each branch [...] »

Screencapture, FDR Memorial, National Park Service homepage

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The First Thanksgiving, Jean Louis Gerome Ferris

Only two eyewitness accounts of that first Thanksgiving remain. [...] »

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