Media Resources

EDSITEment provides access to NEH-funded media resources including videos, podcasts, lectures, interactives for the classroom, and film projects. Each resource includes questions to prompt analysis, connections to other NEH-related resources, and links to related EDSITEment lessons and materials.

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Ask an NEH Expert: All About Local History

Museums and archives that focus on telling local stories can offer important insight for researchers. In this video, experts from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the New York Public Library discuss how local stories and perspectives inform their collections. Part of a series of videos made in collaboration with National History Day.

Ask an NEH Expert: About Editing

Sometimes the hardest part about sharing your research is deciding what not to include. In this video, experts from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the New York Public Library explain the importance of editing when working on a research project. Part of a series of videos made in collaboration with National History Day. 

In the Field: Supreme Court Historical Society

Professor James O'Hara, a Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society, discusses an NEH-funded project to digitize the Society's library of rare, out-of-print, and fragile books about Supreme Court justices from the Washington administration to today.

In the Field: Dialogues on the Experience of War

Learn about an NEH-funded program for veterans and college students in California, which places classical literature and the Greek-Trojan wars in dialogue with letters, articles, literature and documentaries about more recent conflicts and provides veterans a space to speak about their experiences.

Q&A with Public Scholar Candacy Taylor

An interview with Candacy Taylor, whose book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America," was supported by an NEH Public Scholar grant.

2012 Jefferson Lecture: Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry delivered the 2012 Jefferson Lecture on April 23, 2012. He speaks of the importance of place in cultivating responsible relationships to the world: only if we are able to imagine our places in the world can we feel affection for those places, for the world, and so begin to create the "possibility of a neighborly, kind, and conserving economy."

Ask an NEH Expert: Building an Argument

In this "Ask an NEH Expert" interview, Margaret Hughes, Associate Director for Education at Historic Hudson Valley, discusses crafting an argument and working with primary sources to support your claims.

Ask an NEH Expert: Validating Sources

Leslie Hayes, the New York Historical Society's Director of Education, discusses how to engage with primary and secondary sources in historical research projects—and how to proceed when sources say very different things.