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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

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

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

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.

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

Everything Your Students Need to Know About Immigration History

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

BackStory: Legislation Impossible - The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Bayard Rustin and Dr. Eugene Reed conduct are interviewed about the Vietnam War at Freedom House. Photo by Al Ravenna.

Civil Rights and the Cold War

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

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

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

The Music of African American History

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

Portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, c. 1907.

W.E.B. Du Bois Papers

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

JFK, Freedom Riders, and the Civil Rights Movement

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