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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

Closer Reading

Jazz Appreciation Month: Women in Jazz
Media Resource

Building A More Perfect Union Lesson Book
Lesson Plan

“Remember” by Joy Harjo
Teacher's Guide

A Literary Glossary for Literature and Language Arts
Teacher's Guide

Maya Angelou: A Phenomenal Woman
Teacher's Guide

The Works of Langston Hughes

Civil Rights in the U.S.

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

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.

Civil Rights leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.

Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

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

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

Photo of Cesar Chavez with farm workers in California, ca. 1970.

"Sí, se puede!": Chávez, Huerta, and the UFW

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"

Photograph of Mary Jackson, who in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer.

BackStory: Hidden Figures - The People Behind the Story You Know

B.B. King Live in Hamburg, Germany, November 1971.

The Music of African American History

Images of Freedom Riders at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.

JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement

Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

I Have a Dream: The Vision 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

The Jazz Ambassadors
Media Resource

Ask an NEH Expert: Wide Research