History Resources

"I love you but hate slavery": Frederick Douglass to his former owner, Hugh Auld, ca. 1860

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Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493

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Geography, World History

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Proclamation of 1763, 1763

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Government and Civics

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Declaration of Independence, 1776

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Government and Civics

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Don’t Buy a Ford Ever Again, ca. 1960

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Surrender of the British General Cornwallis to the Americans, October 19, 1781

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World History

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Davy Crockett on the removal of the Cherokees, 1834

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Government and Civics

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Death of a soldier, 1863: Paul Semmes

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JFK on the containment of Communism, 1952

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Economics, World History

Map of the New World, with European settlements and American Indian tribes, 1730

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Geography

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