History Resources

Photograph of a "Hooverville," 1936

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Economics

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Photograph of an abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl, 1938

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Art, Economics, Geography

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San Francisco's Chinatown, 1880

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William T. Sherman on the western railroads, 1878

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Andrew Jackson to the Cherokee Tribe, 1835

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"Jefferson is in every view less dangerous than Burr": Hamilton on the election of 1800

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Government and Civics

The Battles of Lexington and Concord, 1775

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Secotan, an Algonquian village, ca. 1585

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Art

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William Penn on the "Well-Governing of My Family," 1751

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Religion and Philosophy

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An African American protests the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

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Economics

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