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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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Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan
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Eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic, 1912
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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

Reflections on the History of Environmental Health and Sustainability

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James Engell

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

Societies with Slaves vs. Slave Societies

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Ira Berlin

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974

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James T. Patterson

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

The Independence of the States

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David Armitage

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The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America

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Kevin Phillips

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Cold War

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Aaron David Miller

Government and Civics, World History

Morgan: American Financier

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Jean Strouse

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Lincoln in Latin America

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Nicola Miller

Government and Civics, World History

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