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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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"Fun, Fun Rock ’n’ Roll High School"
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Birth of a Nation, 1915
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
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World War II: Posters and Propaganda
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Building Mount Rushmore, 1926

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Gutzon Borglum

Art

The Great West Illustrated, 1869

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Andrew J. Russell

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

My Country, ’Tis of Thee

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Samuel F. Smith

John Philip Sousa critiques modern music, 1930

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John P. Sousa

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"America the Beautiful," 1893

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Katharine Lee Bates

The Big Bang! The Birth of Rock and Roll

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum

Art, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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American Music Goes to War

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Tom Wolff

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Sounds of Change: The Influence of Jazz on the Beat Generation

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Erik Bloch

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African American soldiers at the Battle of Fort Wagner, 1863

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Currier & Ives

Harriet Beecher Stowe sends Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1852

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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