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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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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

Literature Makes History: How Poets Helped End Slavery

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James G. Basker

Literature

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

Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II

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Joseph W. Trotter

Economics, Government and Civics

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The Bondwoman’s Narrative

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Literature

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

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Alice Kessler-Harris

Economics, Government and Civics

Non-Violent Methods of Protest

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Anthony J. Badger

Economics, Government and Civics

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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

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