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Covers Supreme Court cases, busing and school integration, school integration in Ann Arbor and resegragation in American schools.

Possible lesson content for unit on John Brown and the Underground Railroad.

Descriptions of famous trials throughout history. They include primary source material and transcripts of the proceedings when available. It starts with the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. and ends with the trial of Moussaoui in 2006. Trials include Lizzie Bordan, Haymarket, Salem witch trials, Amistad, and John Brown.

Has musical manuscripts (?), newspapers and other resources related to Honest Abe.

A set of digital collections focussing on American culture (including African-American and Yiddish music from C19th & C20th), literature, Abraham Lincoln, World War I & military history.

In Argument Wars, players debate historical Supreme Court cases by advancing arguments and sound supports. Cases include Brown v. Board of Education, New Jersey v. TLO, Gideon v. Wainwright, and many more.

1999 High School History Quiz The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a Washington-based nonprofit group that promotes liberal-arts study, posed 34 high-school level questions randomly to 556 seniors at 55 leading colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Brown. Only one student answered all the questions correctly, and the average score was 53 percent.

In the 1950s and 1960s planners in Harrisonburg, VA implemented a federally sponsored slum clearance and urban renewal program. Seeking to compare this redevelopment effort with the urban renewal efforts in other major cities, students in James Madison University's US Urban Social History Course have begun digitizing relevant primary documents. These files are drawn from Harrisonburg's City Council minutes as well as records located at the Department of Planning and Community Development, the Harrisonburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority, and in local planner Robert Sullivan's personal collection. The files are organized by the location where the originals are currently located. Indices and summaries of relevant Daily New Record articles will be added shortly. The students who digitzed this collection of documents include: John Almquist, Alicen Brown, Alexander Carroll, Rose Anne Coates, Troy Cunningham, Eric Echelberger, John Fitzmaurice, Paul Frankel, Christopher Gray, William Hayes, Mark Hitchko, Kristin Keinz, Anna Klemm, Meaghan Leonard, Christina Lloyd-Williams, Brian Mannion, Mallory Micetich, Elizabeth Morris, Emily Neufeld, Samuel Padgett, Taylor Wood

While to get the full version you must buy the curriculum for any given topic (which I will say I have found to be VERY worth the money they charge if you are interested in purchasing), for any given curriculum set, when you select it, on the right side you will see a box that says "supplemental materials". This is a link that gives you access to graphic organizers, video clips by historians, etc all good stuff you can use in your lessons!

You can search as well as browse the collection and seems to go back earlier than the 20th century.

Nearly 7000 images from early America which you can view in a cool viewer that opens up in a new tab/window. Very groovy.

An animated map which is an excellent source of information on foreign interference in Africa. You can zoom and use the left/right keys to navigate through the graphics. Helps to show how African power structures have changed over time. Very cool!

Many primary and secondary source texts