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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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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

Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

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Henry Knox

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George Washington on the abolition of slavery, 1786

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George Washington

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Two versions of the Preamble to the Constitution, 1787

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Constitutional Convention

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George Washington’s reluctance to become president, 1789

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George Washington

Government and Civics

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