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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.

449 articles   325 videos   87 online exhibitions and timelines

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A New Era of American Indian Autonomy

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Ned Blackhawk

Government and Civics

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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II in the American West

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Elliott West

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent In the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates

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Christopher L. Miller

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

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Lincoln’s Interpretation of the Civil War

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Eric Foner

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

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Transcontinental Railroads: Compressing Time and Space

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Richard White

Economics, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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The Age of Reagan

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Gil Troy

Race and the American Constitution: A Struggle toward National Ideals

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James O. Horton

Government and Civics

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The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century

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T. J. Stiles

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History

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Cold War, Warm Hearth

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Elaine Tyler May

The Origins of Slavery

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Ira Berlin

Geography, World History

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