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Find DocNotes at the App Store

We admit it. We’re addicted to our iPhones.

So we couldn’t wait to develop our own DocNotes apps for you busy students, teachers, and lovers of history. Our apps provide quick access to our documents and expert analysis and let you annotate both with your own notes and highlights. We added other helpful study features like glossaries, auto-scrolling, bookmarking, customizable fonts and colors, adjustable spacing, and even a night mode for late night study. DocNotes apps are also perfect for history classrooms that are using the iPod Touch. Learn more

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Activity guides, lesson plans, handouts, and more

Activity guides, lesson plans, handouts, and more

Teacher Resources

We’re pleased to introduce our new Teacher’s Area, where our team of historians and veteran teachers have created activity guides, study questions, lesson plans, handouts, and more. Tied to the National History Standards, our classroom resources are designed for document-based teaching and learning. Resources are organized by era, so you can quickly find what you need. For juicy extras, sign up for our teacher newsletter.

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Theodore Roosevelt in a 1903 photograph

Theodore Roosevelt in a 1903 photograph

The Literary Genius of Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt

Roosevelt astonishingly managed over a relatively short lifespan to write approximately thirty books, many hundreds of articles and speeches, and more than one hundred thousand letters. In today’s world, it’s almost inconceivable that any president will end up producing the kind of voluminous writings that a Churchill or Roosevelt did. If not, will civilization be the worse for it?

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“Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster . . . must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.”

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president of South Africa. In his inaugural address, he promoted reconciliation and his vision for a new nation of freedom and quality.

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  • Indian History

    Mahatma Gandhi

    India is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations. 5,000 years of evidence present a civilization rich in philosophy, religion, and empire. By the 1600s, India had become part of the British colonial empire and a...

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  • Islamic History

    King Faisal I (Library of Congress)

    Born in the Middle East, Islam is now the world’s second largest religion. Followers of Islam have ruled great empires and small nations, steadily spreading the faith across the globe. Conflict among Muslims,...

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  • African American History

    Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr.

    African American issues have touched every era and informed nearly every development in U.S. history. From the arrival of the first African slaves in 1619 to the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery divided the...

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  • The Classical World

    Temple of Olympian Zeus with Acropolis in background (Library of Congress)

    The foundations of Western society lie in the histories of ancient Greece and Rome. Both democracy and republicanism were derived from these great civilizations, and their philosophies and literatures are still...

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  • Women’s History

    Shirley Chisholm, Queen Victoria, and Abigail Adams

    Throughout history, women have been some of the most influential players on the world stage. They led nations and empires: Hatshepsut, Elizabeth I, and Queen Victoria came to define the eras in which they ruled. Behind...

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