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Locate quality American history sources and reliable content from across the web.

Advertisement, At last THE MOUSE is here.., 1975, Dean Hovey Personal Papers.

Preserves the history of the Macintosh through interviews with designers, technical writers, Apple employees, and others.

Map, Preliminary map no.2 of the country surveyed in 1872 and 1873, 1873, LoC

Looking for maps with an environmental focus? Try here.

uncle sam and his budget

Economic policy during the Reagan Administration

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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Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection

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

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

iCivics

Screenshot, People's Pie, iCivics

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

A New Deal for Carbon Hill, Alabama

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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Turkey Tracking

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

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

Discovering Christopher Columbus

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

Back to the Future . . .

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

In the year 1900, what did Americans think the next century would bring? Did [...] »

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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.? [...] »

20th-century Jewish Immigration

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

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

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 begin [...] »

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National Museum of African Art

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

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

Military History

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 [...] »

National Park Service

Screencapture, FDR Memorial, National Park Service homepage

Lesson plans, essays, multimedia, activities, and artifacts of U.S. heritage. [...] »

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Menu for the First Thanksgiving

The First Thanksgiving, Jean Louis Gerome Ferris

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

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