History Resources

On the emigrant trail, 1862

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Geography

Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy, 1936

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World History

Literacy and the immigration of "undesirables," 1903

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Government and Civics, World History

Buying Frederick Douglass’s freedom, 1846

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Economics

A political cartoon of Grant and Lee, 1864

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Art, Government and Civics

Preventing labor discrimination during World War II, 1942

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Economics, Government and Civics

Politics and the Texas Revolution, 1836

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Government and Civics

Poem on a Civil War death: "Only a Private Killed," 1861

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Literature

FDR urges NAACP support before WWII, 1940

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William Cullen Bryant opposes the protective tariff, 1876

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Economics, Government and Civics