Media Resources

More than ten-thousand Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Heart Mountain in Wyoming, from 1942-1945. This resource asks students to examine the question "why here?" through the use of videos, primary sources, and other digital materials about this historically significant site and era. 

A video interview series conducted with Sam Mihara, a Japanese American incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during WWII, that includes primary sources and other materials.

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 video guides researchers through the basics of using the Chronicling America database, including entering search terms, filtering by year and state, sorting results, and sharing and saving articles.

This video guides researchers through the advanced search features of the Chronicling America database, including filtering by state, newspaper title, date range, page number, and language, as well as modifying keyword search parameters or searching for an exact phrase.

This episode of NEH-funded BackStory explores the idea of assimilation in the United States from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, with connections to current events.

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.