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.

427 articles 319 videos 89 online exhibitions and timelines

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The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493

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Geography, Religion and Philosophy, World History

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A Jamestown settler describes life in Virginia, 1622

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Economics, Geography

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The surrender of New Netherland, 1664

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Geography

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Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682

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Geography, World History

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

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Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi, 1718

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Geography, World History

Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

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Art, World History

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Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

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Geography, Government and Civics, World History

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George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

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Economics, Government and Civics

Two versions of the Preamble to the Constitution, 1787

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Government and Civics

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