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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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Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

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Anthony J. Badger

Government and Civics

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

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Anthony J. Badger

Government and Civics

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FDR’s First 100 Days . . . and Obama’s

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Anthony J. Badger

Economics

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

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Joseph J. Ellis

Government and Civics

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A Voyage Long and Strange

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Tony Horwitz

World History

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Morgan: American Financier

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Jean Strouse

Art, Economics, World History

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Lincoln in Latin America

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Nicola Miller

Government and Civics, World History

Reform Cities: Chicago, Osaka, and Moscow

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Blair Ruble

Economics, World History

Europeans and the New World, 1400–1530

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Brian DeLay

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

Calling the Constitutional Convention

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Carol Berkin

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