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History Net

The Weider History Group publishes a wide range of military history magazines, including "America's Civil War" and "Civil War Times". They've also been generous enough to create this website, which offers a wide range of articles from their different publications. First-time visitors to the homepage may want to start out by taking a shot at the "Daily Quiz", which offers up a range of questions on...

https://www.historynet.com/
New Jersey History

Founded as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1845, the journal was re-launched as New Jersey History in 2005 under the direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission, Kean University, and the New Jersey Historical Society. This website offers access to issues of the journal dating back to 2009. Recent articles from the journal include "Challenging...

https://njh.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njh
Teaching the JAH

This site from the Journal of American History will feature digital resources that help "bridge the gap between the latest scholarly research in U.S. history and the practice of classroom teaching." The authors of the featured articles will provide tips, documents, and other materials to demonstrate how their work might be taught in an undergraduate US history survey. The first article is...

http://archive.oah.org/special-issues/teaching/
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The Chicagoan

In the wake of The New Yorker's creation, a group of Chicagoans decided to create a like-minded publication for the Windy City. With that in mind, The Chicagoan was born in 1926. This jaunty publication, which lasted until 1935, aimed "to portray the city as a cultural hub and counter its image as a place of violence and vice." This remarkable website created by the University of Chicago Library...

http://chicagoan.lib.uchicago.edu/xtf/search?static=home
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We're History

We're History draws from academics, journalists, and amateur historians to present the multifarious narratives of America, in all its contradictions and complexity. Posts and articles on the site fall into one of five informative categories: History Behind the News; Culture, Military & Maritime; Politics & Economics; and This Day in History. One particularly fascinating entry by Benjamin T....

http://werehistory.org/