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At EDSITEment, we want to know how we can make online humanities resources more accessible for YOU and YOUR students.
What kinds of materials are most useful for your own curriculum and for…
Spanish Language Websites: Beginning through Early Intermediate.
¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, showcases the life and art of Cuban-born Pop singer, Celia Cruz,…
BBC Mundo: BBCMundo.com
The site contains news of the world in Spanish. Advanced students. AP recommended.
Explore classroom lesson plans related to Ken Burns's and Lynn Novick’s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, which tells the story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and…
Lessons will explore the different political, military and other motivations that influenced the decisions of five U.S. presidents and take a close-up look at American leadership and politics.
The Vietnam War offers a powerful lens for examining issues of class, race, and ethnicity during an especially volatile time in American history.
The “images” of the Vietnam War and the messages sent by the news media and how they influenced the public perceptions about the war.
Lessons will explore how the war affected domestic politics, the civil rights movement, the elections, popular culture.
Lessons will explore the degree of understanding and the many misunderstandings Americans have about Vietnam, it’s people and it’s struggles.
Why Vietnam? What were the root causes of the war from a geopolitical perspective? From a bi-polar perspective? Through a Cold War lens?
Initially, the US strategy was to fight a conventional war, but this war had no conventional front line.
Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America. Was the American Revolution inevitable?
Visualizing Emancipation is a comprehensive map and timeline illustrating the slow decline of slavery in the United States. It provides quick access to thousands of primary source documents in…
In this American Radio Works podcast and website, partially funded by NEH, Stephen Smith presents the story of Thurgood Marshall's remarkable career. In 1967, Marshall became the first African…
In this episode of BackStory, funded in part by the NEH, host Ed Ayers speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning historian Eric Foner about Reconstruction and how it served as a "second founding…
Learn about an eclectic assortment of culinary traditions in this episode of BackStory, funded in part by the NEH.
In this episode of BackStory, listen to a compilation of some of the show's coverage of Black history, created in honor of Black History Month.
In this episode of BackStory, hosts Brian Balogh and Lizzie Peabody investigate an explosive history: the use of dynamite in the United States.
In this episode of BackStory, explore the history of the bison, from days when the animals were in abundance to their near extinction to conservation efforts today.
In this episode of BackStory, learn about the history of sports in the United States, and how a fight to win on the field, court, or track is often embedded in a fight for equality. While…