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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess
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World War I poems: "In Flanders Fields" & "The Answer," 1918
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Understanding Slavery via Narratives
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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II in the American West

Essay

Elliott West

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Lincoln’s Interpretation of the Civil War

Essay

Eric Foner

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

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Lincoln at Cooper Union

Essay

Harold Holzer

Art, Government and Civics

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The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the Salem Witchcraft Crisis

Essay

Mary Beth Norton

Geography, Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

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Women and Wagoners: Camp Followers in the American War for Independence

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Holly A. Mayer

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The Jungle and the Progressive Era

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Robert W. Cherny

Economics, Government and Civics

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The Slave Narratives: A Genre and a Source

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David W. Blight

Economics

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Magellan: Missing in Action

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Laurence Bergreen

Geography, Literature, World History

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence

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Hollis Robbins

Literature

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The Myth of the Frontier: Progress or Lost Freedom

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John Mack Faragher

Art, Economics, Geography, Literature

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