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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 Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Literature v. History
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World War I poems: "In Flanders Fields" & "The Answer," 1918

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Literature, World History

Verses on Norwegian emigration to America, 1853

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Thorvald A. Hansen

Foreign Languages, Literature, World History

Frederick Douglass’s tribute to Abraham Lincoln, 1880

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Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass, Orator

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Sarah Meer

Why I Embrace the Term Latinx

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Ed Morales

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