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New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.

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Why Immigration Matters

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Thomas Kessner

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Postwar Politics and the Cold War

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Jeremi Suri

The History of Women’s Baseball

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Kerry Candaele

Government and Civics

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Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy

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Jeremi Suri

World History

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Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy: Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century America

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Joyce Appleby

Economics

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Immigration and Migration

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Hasia Diner

Economics, Government and Civics

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A New Look at the Great Plains

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Elliott West

Geography

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The Righteous Revolution of Mercy Otis Warren

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Ray Raphael

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

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The Colonial Virginia Frontier and International Native American Diplomacy

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William White

Government and Civics

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Lockean Liberalism and the American Revolution

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Isaac Kramnick

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

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