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Closer Reading

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Presidents' Day holiday
Teacher's Guide

African American History and Culture in the United States
Media Resource

BackStory: Hidden Figures - The People Behind the Story You Know
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Music of the Harlem Renaissance
Curriculum

NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in the Interwar Years
Teacher's Guide

The Works of Langston Hughes

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John Steinbeck: Social Critic and Ecologist

John Steinbeck: Social Critic and Ecologist

Labor and Landscape: Lowell as 19th-Century Crucible

Labor and Landscape: Lowell as 19th-Century Crucible

Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age

Moby Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age

Saipan's Land and Sea: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience

Saipan's Land and Sea: Battle Scars and Sites of Resilience

Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling

Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling

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

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

The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History

The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History

Emancipation and Evolving American Identity

Emancipation and Evolving American Identity

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

Beyond the Mayflower: New Voices from Early America, 1500-1676

Beyond the Mayflower: New Voices from Early America, 1500-1676

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

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

Shakespeare and the Making of America

Shakespeare and the Making of America

Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii

Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii

America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

America's Reconstruction: The Untold Story

Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative

Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative

Contested Territory: America’s Involvement in Vietnam, 1945-1975

Contested Territory: America’s Involvement in Vietnam, 1945-1975

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

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

The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation

The American Skyscraper: Transforming Chicago and the Nation

Mesa Verde National Park and Pueblo Indian History

Mesa Verde National Park and Pueblo Indian History

Living on the Edge of Empire: Alliance, Conflict, and Captivity in Colonial New England

Living on the Edge of Empire: Alliance, Conflict, and Captivity in Colonial New England

Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences

Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences

What We Teach and Why: Philosophers of Education from the Enlightenment to the Present

What We Teach and Why: Philosophers of Education from the Enlightenment to the Present

Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West

Hoover Dam and the Shaping of the American West

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 Salem Witch Trials: Their World and Legacy

The Salem Witch Trials: Their World and Legacy

The Cold War through the Collections of the Intrepid Museum

The Cold War through the Collections of the Intrepid Museum

Becoming US: The Immigrant Experience through Primary Sources

Becoming US: The Immigrant Experience through Primary Sources

Borderlands of Southern Colorado

Borderlands of Southern Colorado

On Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg in History and Memory

On Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg in History and Memory

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

Freedom’s Lawmakers: Black Leadership during Reconstruction

Freedom’s Lawmakers: Black Leadership during Reconstruction

The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia

The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia

The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power

The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power

American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948

American Women, American Citizens: 1920-1948

Mapping Nature across the Americas

Mapping Nature Across the Americas

Grand Coulee Dam: The Intersection of Modernity and Indigenous Cultures

Grand Coulee Dam: The Intersection of Modernity and Indigenous Cultures

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

The Jazz Ambassadors
Media Resource

Q&A with Public Scholar Candacy Taylor