Driving excellence in humanities education

A More Perfect Union

History and Civics Materials for the nation's 250th Anniversary

Landmarks of American History & Culture

Resources for place-based teaching and research

Lesson Plan

Visual Records of a Changing Nation
Teacher's Guide

Commemorating Constitution Day
Lesson Plan

Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
Media Resource

Building A More Perfect Union Lesson Book
Teacher's Guide

Hispanic and Latino Heritage and History in the United States
Teacher's Guide

Digital Humanities and Online Education

Civil Rights in the U.S.

Resources on movements
for change in the U.S.
for K-12 humanities classrooms

President Lyndon Johnson addresses the nation before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The Civil Rights Act of 1964

“Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner,” by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly (20 November 1869)

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others look on.

Backstory: Give Us the Ballot from "LBJ and the Great Society"

Cover of the 1940 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book created by Victor Hugo Green

The Green Book: African American Experiences of Travel and Place in the U.S.

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

Places and People of the Civil Rights Movement

Fakirs (oil on canvas) by Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1951). 

Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within Humanities Education

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.)

Lesson 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963, march on Washington, D.C.

Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57

Picturing America: Jacob Lawrence and Martin Puryear

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

Ask an NEH Expert: Historical Significance
Media Resource

The Papers of the War Department