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Landmarks of American History and Culture

Teacher's Guide

American Indian History and Heritage

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Native American Keywords for Chronicling America

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Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake

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The Papers of the War Department

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Frontiers on the Big Screen

Civil Rights

and

Social Justice

in U.S. History

This map appeared in the magazine Puck during the Empire State Campaign, a hard-fought referendum on a suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution.

Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement

An Equal Rights Amendment demonstration proceeds down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol July 9, 1978.

U.S. Civil Rights Movements of the 20th Century

Crowd of women holding "ERA yes" and "stop ERA" signs

The Amendments Project

Building A More Perfect Union cover

Building A More Perfect Union Lesson Book

Demonstrator outside the State Steamship Lines, circa May 1969

The LGBTQ Community in American History

stereograph shows laborers and rocks at opening of tunnel

Citizenship, Race, and Place: Frontiers in Asian American History

Judy Richardson (center, holding notebook) with other SNCC staff workers

Grassroots Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement: Focus on Women

Goddess of Liberty drives a chariot pulled by two white horses. She is followed by Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant, each on a horse. On either side, white soldiers and Black civilians presumed to be formerly enslaved. Capitol Rotunda in background.

Afro Atlantic: Exploring Emancipation

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Why Here?: Heart Mountain, Wyoming and Japanese Incarceration

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

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"Fill Up the Jails": Creative Protest and the Virtual Martin Luther King Project

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Adiós Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno