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African American History Since Emancipation: Self-Paced Course (Protesters marching for civil rights in the 1960's)

African American History since Emancipation

Alexander Hamilton's America: Self-Paced Course (Portrait of Alexander Hamilton)

Alexander Hamilton's America

American Immigration History: 1820 to the Present (Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island)

American Immigration History: 1820 to the Present

American Immigration History: People, Patterns, and Policy (Immigrants of the early twentieth century)

American Immigration History: People, Patterns, and Policy

American Indian History: Case Studies (American Indian Women sitting in a field)

American Indian History: Case Studies

American Indian History: Recasting the Narrative

Black Lives in the Founding Era (Image of Rt. Rev. Richard Allen)

Black Lives in the Founding Era

Black Women's History (Poster of Shirley Chishom "Vote Chisholm 1972, Unbought and Unbossed)

Black Women's History

Black Writers in American History (Photo of Frederick Douglass)

Black Writers in American History

Image of bank note from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Capitalism in American History

Colonial North America (Drawing of ships arriving at colonial harbor)

Colonial North America

Conflict and Reform: The United States, 1877-1920 (Photo of Jane Adams, co-founder of Hull House)

Conflict and Reform: The United States, 1877-1920

Democracy in the Early Republic (Painting of people congregating in the town square)

Democracy in the Early Republic

Emancipation (Black and white painting of Union soldier delivering the news of emancipation to black family)

Emancipation

Famous Trials in American History (Graphic of six images that includes O.J. Simpson, Leo Frank, mug shots of the police officers indicted for brutalizing Rodney King, Ethel Rosenberg, The Scopes "Monkey" trial, Emmett Till

Famous Trials in American History

Historiography and Historical Methods (Hand written letter dated June 2, 1785)

Historiography and Historical Methods

Lives of the Enslaved (Civil War era photo of a large group of enslaved people gathered outside. Women are sitting on the ground while the men stand behind them.)

Lives of the Enslaved

Origins of the Civil War (Civil War Era photo of a black family standing in front of crumbling city buildings)

Origins of the Civil War

Race and Rights in America ("I AM A MAN" Broadside from the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike)

Race and Rights in America

Revolutionary America (1774 engraving of tarring and feathering of a man in Boston)

Revolutionary America

Slavery in the Americas (Sketch of enslaved people walking down a road with a horse drawn carriage behind them)

Slavery in the Americas

Colonial North America (Drawing of ships arriving at colonial harbor)

Teaching with Documents: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

The Age of Jefferson (Portrait of Thomas Jefferson)

The Age of Jefferson

The American Civil War: A Self-Paced Course (Battle of Gettysburg)

The American Civil War

The American Enlightenment (Portrait of Benjamin Franklin)

The American Enlightenment

The American Presidency (Portraits of six presidents–Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama

The American Presidency

The American West (Nineteenth century photo of abobe structures)

The American West

The Era of Theodore Roosevelt (Photo of Theodore Roosevelt sitting, reading a letter)

The Era of Theodore Roosevelt

The Global Cold War (Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev shaking hands outside of the White House)

The Global Cold War

The Great Depression and the New Deal

The History of American Protest (Broadside "HONOR KING: END RADISM!" from the Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968)

The History of American Protest

The History of Anti-Slavery Writings (Image of Phillis Wheatley sitting at a desk as she writes)

The History of Anti-Slavery Writings

The Kennedy Presidency (Photo of President Kennedy sitting at his desk in the Oval Office)

The Kennedy Presidency

The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (Portrait of a young Frederick Douglass)

The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass

The Presidents vs. The Press (Photo of FDR sitting at desk, signing a bill and surrounded by other political figures)

The Presidents vs. The Press

The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Broadside "HONOR KING: END RADISM!" from the Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968)

The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The South in American History (Nineteenth-century photo of a Black family in front of a wood home)

The South in American History

The Supreme Court and the Constitution in the 20th Century (Photo of early twentieth century supreme court judges)

The Supreme Court and the Constitution in the 20th Century

The Vietnam War (Black and white photo of Vietnam soldiers kneeling near a puddle of water that mirrors thier position)

The Vietnam War

The World at War (World War I propaganda poster of opposing sides in battle)

The World at War

Women and Gender in 19th-Century America (Postage stamp featuring Elizabeth Stanton, Carrie C. Catt, Lucretia Mott)

Women and Gender in 19th-Century America

Women and Politics in 20th-Century America (World War II era photo of African American women working as riveters)

Women and Politics in 20th-Century America

Women in the American Revolution (Black and white portrait of Mercy Warren)

Women in the American Revolution

World War II (World War II poster of damaged American flag waving in the wind. Includes quote "...we here highly resolves that these dead shall not have died in vain.." at the top of the poster. Says "REMEMBER DEC. 7TH!" on the bottom.

World War II