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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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"Fun, Fun Rock ’n’ Roll High School"
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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
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Using Visual Images to Teach Colonial History

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Emily Clark

Art

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Literature Makes History: How Poets Helped End Slavery

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James G. Basker

Literature

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History

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Monuments and Memorials: The South in American History

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Edward L. Ayers

Religion vs. Spirituality in 1960s America

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Michael Kazin

Religion and Philosophy

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ’n’ Roll

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Marc Dolan

Art, Government and Civics

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The Story of America: Essays on Origins

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Jill Lepore

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940

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James G. Basker, Jonathan Holloway

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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America

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Donald L. Miller

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Inside the Vault: British Troops Landing in Boston Harbor

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Beth Huffer

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