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This resource is part of EDSITEment’s Race…
Chris Brown and Jason Deitch discuss the NEH-funded project "War Ink," which collaborates with veterans and libraries to tell the stories of veterans' tattoo art.
This NEH-supported interview with Ernie LaPointe, great-grandson of Sitting Bull and author of Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, and Cedric Good House, discusses the Lakota…
The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, was founded by Horace Peterson III in 1974. Today, the Black Archives houses some of the most important sources related to the…
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…
This episode of BackStory recounts the turbulent history of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Each segment below contains a clip from the podcast as well as a set of comprehension…
This episode of BackStory discusses the ways people in the U.S. have responded to technological changes over the centuries, highlighting that suspicion of such changes is often…
This resource presents a variety of artworks, from the 17th century to the present, that highlight the presence and experiences of Black communities across the Atlantic world (the relationships…
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…
This resource is part of EDSITEment’s …
Smarthistory is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that offers free resources on art, history, and art history for classrooms and public enjoyment. Curated by scholars from…
The NEH-funded digital history project Hearing the Americas provides an interactive way to explore the first decades of recorded music in the early twentieth century, revealing how…
Twenty years after Brown. v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall lamented a 5-4 decision in a different desegregation case, Milliken v. Bradley. Marshall recognized how Milliken would curtail the…
A Sense of Place: Architecture, Culture and History in the Arkansas Delta is an Alex Foundation six day, two week residential workshop. This new workshop will bring together 60 6-12 grade teachers…
Forever Wild: Americans and Their Land During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era" is a one-week immersion experience in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park where teachers live and learn at SUNY…
Sixty years after 1964's landmark event, Freedom Summer, attendees will travel to Mississippi to learn about this integral Civil Rights struggle. Freedom Summer volunteers traveled from across the…
Reclaiming the Narrative: Learning the Truth about Indian Boarding Schools in Arizona is a weeklong professional learning workshop based at the historic Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center (PISVC…
The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power is an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for K-12 educators, museum educators, and librarians that…
This first-time workshop for higher education faculty, advanced graduate students, and humanities professionals will examine the historical, cultural, economic, and environmental significance of…
The Space Coast is the starting point for America’s exploration of the universe, but the region also provides visitors with opportunities to investigate the continuing intersections of politics,…
Creative Spaces/Contested Spaces: Reinterpreting Italian American Public Art in New York City is an exploration of Italian American public art that examines how monuments and landmarks are created…
“Grand Coulee: The Intersection of Modernity and Indigenous Cultures” explores how different social groups experience history and memory. The workshops unpack the Grand Coulee Dam as a landmark of…
The St. Louis Blues: Music, Migration, and the Movement examines the relationships between blues music, migration, and race relations in urban environments. St. Louis has been home to several of…
The “Exploring the First Amendment” institutes will consider the development of the First Amendment in Philadelphia, from William Penn’s founding of the Colony of Pennsylvania through the present…
Wide-Open Town explores Kansas City’s "Golden Age" in the 1920s and 1930s. A notorious political machine, vice and organized crime, and racial segregation often overshadowed business leaders’…
Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations” will examine history through the neighborhood of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California. Joined by scholars, educators, curators,…
The educator workshops will examine how more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to 10 camps established by the War Relocation Authority…
Colgate University offers a three-week, summer institute from July 7-26, 2024 on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad (UGRR) in North America from the colonial era through the Civil War. This…
"Shakespeare and Digital Storytelling” is a two-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 9-12. The theme of “translation,” as a means to contextualize Shakespeare’s art and to…
The Religious Worlds of New York summer institute helps K-12 teachers teach creatively and effectively about religious diversity, with an emphasis on everyday faith community life. Participants…