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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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Perils of the Ocean in the Early Modern Era

Essay

Robert C. Ritchie

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

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Women of the West

Essay

Virginia Scharff

Geography, Government and Civics

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FDR and Hitler: A Study in Contrasts

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David M. Kennedy

Government and Civics, World History

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The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes

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R. B. Bernstein

Economics, Government and Civics

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Indian Removal

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Theda Perdue

Geography, Government and Civics

The Human Toll of the Great Depression

Essay

Steven Mintz

Economics

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Lincoln

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Allen C. Guelzo

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Andrew Jackson’s Shifting Legacy

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Daniel Feller

Economics, Government and Civics

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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies

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James T. Patterson

Art, Government and Civics, Literature

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The World War II Home Front

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Allan M. Winkler

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

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