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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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Economic and Financial Crises in American History, Part 1

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Richard Sylla

Economics, Government and Civics

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Economic and Financial Crises in American History Day 2

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Richard Sylla

Economics, Government and Civics

Using Visual Images to Teach Colonial History

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Emily Clark

Art

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Lincoln and Wales

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Kenneth O. Morgan

Government and Civics, World History

Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship

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Jonathan Holloway

Government and Civics

Great Biographies: African American Scientists

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Reflections on the History of Environmental Health and Sustainability

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James Engell

Economics, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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David S. Reynolds

Government and Civics, Literature

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Q&A

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David S. Reynolds

Government and Civics, Literature

An Overview of Key Moments in the Separation of Powers and the Supreme Court; Federalism and the Two Court Systems

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Jack Rakove, Sandra Day O'Connor

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