Media Resources

The NEH-funded Free and Equal project offers a digital way for students to explore the Rehearsal for Reconstruction in the Sea Islands of South Carolina in 1861. The site uses primary sources and dynamic images and illustrations to walk visitors through how this early attempt at reconstruction affected Black families. 

Digital archives have the power to bring library and museum collections directly to your screen! 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 share information about their digital collections and how they can best be used for project research.  

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.

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. 

Ken Burns delivered the 2016 Jefferson Lecture on May 9, 2016.

Drew Gilpin Faust, historian and first female president of Harvard University, delivered the 2011 Jefferson Lecture.

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.

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.

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.

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."