History Resources

John Quincy Adams and the Amistad case, 1841

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Government and Civics

John Brown’s final speech, 1859

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The Gettysburg Address, 1863

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Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

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The Western Sanitary Commission reports on suffering in the Mississippi Valley, 1863

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Government and Civics

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Sharecropper contract, 1867

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Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

A perspective on the San Francisco earthquake, 1906

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Eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic, 1912

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Geography, World History

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Herbert Hoover on the Great Depression and New Deal, 1931–1933

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Foreign Languages

Japan declares war, 1941

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World History

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

FDR on racial discrimination, 1942

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Government and Civics

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