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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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A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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A bond for the manumission of a slave, 1757
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights

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Steven Mintz

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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Motor City: The Story of Detroit

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Thomas J. Sugrue

Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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Why Sports History Is American History

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Mark Naison

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Abolition and Antebellum Reform

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Ronald G. Walters

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

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When the Past Speaks to the Present: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

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The Riddles of "Confederate Emancipation"

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Bruce Levine

Economics, Government and Civics

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A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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James Oliver Horton

Government and Civics

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Lincoln’s Religion

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Richard Carwardine

Religion and Philosophy

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence

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Hollis Robbins

Literature

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