Media Resources

With funding from NEH, the Virtual Martin Luther King Project, or vMLK, offers an innovative resource for teaching one of King’s important but unrecorded speeches. Delivered on February 16, 1960 in Durham, North Carolina—just over two weeks into the now historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-in a few hours away in Greensboro—Dr. King’s speech, “A Creative Protest,” came to be known as “Fill Up the Jails” because, for the first time, he encouraged activists to disrupt and break the law through nonviolent confrontation, even if it meant “filling up the jails.” 

Walden, Henry David Thoreau’s classic meditation on self-reliance and nature, continues to offer students a valuable perspective nearly two centuries after its first publication in 1854. Now students can also experience the world of Walden Pond through a role-playing game funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Walden, a game lets students explore the woods where this transcendentalist thinker made his temporary home, and a new suite of supporting classroom materials helps teachers bring the experience into their English language arts or social studies curriculum. 

Explore historical maps, discover stories you never knew, find people and historical events related to the Mall's past.

This media resource features a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may facilitate searching African American history and topics in Chronicling America. Primary documents from the past contain sensitive content, and the suggested keywords are often offensive to several different communities of people.

This resource is part of EDSITEment’s Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America. Here you will find historically accurate keywords that may help in using the Chronicling America historic newspaper database to research topics in Hispanic American history.  

We also offer a comprehensive introduction to working with historic newspapers in our teacher’s guide Chronicling America: History’s First Draft. 

This resource is part of EDSITEment’s Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America. Here you will find historically accurate keywords that may help in using the Chronicling America historic newspaper database to research topics in Muslim American history.  

This media resource features a guide to searching topics of race and ethnicity in Chronicling America, including a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may help produce more results. Remember, primary documents from the past contain sensitive content, and the suggested keywords are often offensive to several different communities of people.  

This resource is part of EDSITEment’s Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America. Here you will find historically accurate keywords that may help in using the Chronicling America historic newspaper database to research topics in Asian American and Pacific Islander history.  

By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents, and personal correspondence from this collection, students will immerse themselves in the past and discover the fears, friction, and turmoil that shaped these tumultuous times.

A collection of essays and lessons created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and National History Day as part of the NEH’s special initiative to advance civic education and the study of U.S. history and culture in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.