History Now

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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.

438 articles 318 videos 80 online exhibitions and timelines

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The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493

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Pope Alexander VI

Geography, Religion and Philosophy, World History

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A Jamestown settler describes life in Virginia, 1622

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Sebastian Brandt

Economics, Geography

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The surrender of New Netherland, 1664

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Richard Nicholls

Geography

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Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682

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Nicholas Visscher

Geography, World History

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Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, 1693

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Cotton Mather

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi, 1718

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Guillaume De l’Isle

Geography, World History

Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

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Paul Revere

Art, World History

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Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

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Henry Knox

Geography, Government and Civics, World History

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George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

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George Washington

Economics, Government and Civics

Two versions of the Preamble to the Constitution, 1787

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Constitutional Convention

Government and Civics

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