History Resources

"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

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

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

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Religion and Philosophy

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

An African American protests the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

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Economics

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

Albert Einstein on the McCarthy hearings and the Fifth Amendment, 1953

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Government and Civics

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

George Wallace on segregation, 1964

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Government and Civics

George Washington discusses Shays’ Rebellion and the upcoming Constitutional Convention, 1787

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Enslaved Children of New Orleans, 1863

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The Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

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Government and Civics