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A More Perfect Union

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

American Heroes

Learn about transformative figures in American history

Teacher's Guide

Investigating Local History
Teacher's Guide

Digital Humanities and Online Education
Lesson Plan

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

Using Textual Clues to Understand A Christmas Carol
Teacher's Guide

Preparing for National History Day
Teacher's Guide

A Literary Glossary for Literature and Language Arts

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NEH Workshops for K-12
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Facade of the Cathedral of St. Francis in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Contested Homelands: Knowledge, History, and Culture of Historic Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia

The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia

1921 Chinese lion dance in front of the East King Yick Building.  

From Immigrants to Citizens: Asian Pacific Americans in the Northwest

Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression

Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression

Philipsburg Manor, New York. 

Slavery in the Colonial North

Mary Boyer, First School Teacher, Reading to Students, 1917.

Making the Good Reader and Citizen: Literature Instruction in American Schools

Mesa Verde National Park and Pueblo Indian History

Mesa Verde National Park and Pueblo Indian History

Frederick Douglass, c. 1879.

Frederick Douglass and Literary Crossroads

Making Meaning of May 4th: The 1970 Kent State Shootings in US History

Making Meaning of May 4th: The 1970 Kent State Shootings in US History

Freedom’s Lawmakers: Black Leadership during Reconstruction

Freedom’s Lawmakers: Black Leadership during Reconstruction

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration

Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration

The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives, 1940-1980

The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives, 1940-1980

Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative

Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative

Photograph shows a military color guard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with audience, speakers, and photographers on all sides.

Citizens Fighting for Civil Rights: The Places, Faces, and Cases that Changed a Nation

Mapping a New World: Places of Conflict and Colonization in 17th-Century New England

Mapping a New World: Places of Conflict and Colonization in 17th-Century New England

The Newseum's five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

First Amendment in 21st Century America

America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

Shakespeare and the Making of America

Shakespeare and the Making of America

Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West

Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West

John Singer Sargent's, Gassed (1919)

World War I in History and Literature

Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age

Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age

Leipziger Disputation.

Disputatio and the Pursuit of Wisdom in the Humanities

Braille reading at the Library for the Blind. 

Disability and Identity in History, Literature, and Media

Voices of the Ancients: Archaeology and Oral Tradition in the American Southwest

Voices of the Ancients: Archaeology and Oral Tradition in the American Southwest

Birth of an American Empire: Columbia's Easter Bonnet

Women and Colonization: Early Encounters in the American Colonies

Labor and Landscape: Lowell as 19th-Century Crucible

Labor and Landscape: Lowell as 19th-Century Crucible

Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling

Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling

Africatown Historic District

From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile, Alabama's Africatown

Chihuahua Desert near Sierra Blanca, Texas.

Tales from the Chihuahuan Desert: Borderlands Narratives

Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences

Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences

Painting depicting the story of Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to General George Washington, by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1917.

The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction

The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation

The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation

Freedom and Unity: The Struggle for Independence on the Vermont Frontier

Freedom and Unity: The Struggle for Independence on the Vermont Frontier

The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800

The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1800

Borderlands of Southern Colorado

Borderlands of Southern Colorado

Merrimack Mill, Lowell, MA

Social Movements and Reform in Industrializing America

Mapping Nature across the Americas

Mapping Nature Across the Americas

Emancipation and Evolving American Identity

Emancipation and Evolving American Identity

The Salem Witch Trials: Their World and Legacy

The Salem Witch Trials: Their World and Legacy

Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii

Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii

Migration in Arizona

We The People: Migrant Waves in the Making of America

Two pages from the Galland manuscript, the oldest text of The Thousand and One Nights.

A Reverence for Words: Understanding Muslim Cultures through the Arts

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

2016 Jefferson Lecture: Ken Burns
Media Resource

Exploring Local History with Clio