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The Dust Bowl depicts a morality tale about human’s relationship with the land and the consequences of…
Emphasis on the arts is found in many of Ken Burns’s films, and The Dust Bowl is no exception.
Walden, Henry David Thoreau’s classic meditation on self-reliance and nature, continues to offer students a valuable perspective nearly two centuries after its first publication in 1854.…
Explore historical maps, discover stories you never knew, find people and historical events related to the Mall's past.
This video guides researchers through the basics of using the Chronicling America database, including entering search terms, filtering by year and state, sorting results, and sharing and…
This video guides researchers through the advanced search features of the Chronicling America database, including filtering by state, newspaper title, date range, page number, and language…
This episode of NEH-funded BackStory explores the idea of assimilation in the United States from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, with connections to current events.…
This media resource features a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may facilitate searching African American history and topics in Chronicling America. Primary documents from…
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This media resource features a guide to searching topics of race and ethnicity in Chronicling America, including a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may help produce more…
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Chris Brown and Jason Deitch discuss the NEH-funded project "War Ink," which collaborates with veterans and libraries to tell the stories of veterans' tattoo art.
This NEH-supported interview with Ernie LaPointe, great-grandson of Sitting Bull and author of Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, and Cedric Good House, discusses the Lakota leader's life…
The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, was founded by Horace Peterson III in 1974. Today, the Black Archives houses some of the most important sources related to the…
By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents, and personal correspondence from this collection, students will immerse themselves in the past and discover the…
This episode of BackStory recounts the turbulent history of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Each segment below contains a clip from the podcast as well as a set of comprehension questions to…
This episode of BackStory discusses the ways people in the U.S. have responded to technological changes over the centuries, highlighting that suspicion of such changes is often reasonable…
This resource presents a variety of artworks, from the 17th century to the present, that highlight the presence and experiences of Black communities across the Atlantic world (the relationships…
A collection of essays and lessons created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and National History Day as part of the NEH’s special initiative to advance civic education and the study of…
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Smarthistory is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that offers free resources on art, history, and art history for classrooms and public enjoyment. Curated by scholars from around the…
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The NEH-funded digital history project Hearing the Americas provides an interactive way to explore the first decades of recorded music in the early twentieth century, revealing how ideas…
Twenty years after Brown. v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall lamented a 5-4 decision in a different desegregation case, Milliken v. Bradley. Marshall recognized how Milliken would curtail the…
A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture and History in the Arkansas Delta is an Alex Foundation six day, two week residential workshop. This new workshop will bring together 60 6-12 grade teachers…
Forever Wild: Americans and Their Land During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" is a one-week immersion experience in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park where teachers live and learn at SUNY…
Sixty years after 1964's landmark event, Freedom Summer, attendees will travel to Mississippi to learn about this integral Civil Rights struggle. Freedom Summer volunteers traveled from across the…