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History and Civics Materials for the nation's 250th Anniversary

Landmarks of American History & Culture

Resources for place-based teaching and research

Student Activity

Mission US: For Crown or Colony? The Game
Lesson Plan

The Music of African American History
Closer Reading

Jewish Americans: Securing Rights and Responsibility to Others
Lesson Plan

The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
Media Resource

Why Here?: Eatonville, Florida and Zora Neale Hurston
Media Resource

Histories of the National Mall

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On Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg in History and Memory

On Hallowed Ground: Gettysburg in History and Memory

The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History

The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and History

An upstairs room in a Hopi house, Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Indigenous Histories of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Single page of aged paper reading: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens in Three Volumes: Vol I

Great Expectations in the Global Imaginary

Black and white photo of two-story brick building with a car in front

The City of Brotherly Love: Religious Diversity, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation in Philadelphia

People at work on archaeological dig site, trees and bay in background

From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England

Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The Philipses made use of African slaves to build various structures at both the Upper Mills and Lower Mills.

Slavery in the Colonial North

Kanaka

In Our Own Voices: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the Pacific Northwest

Map of Virginia with French cursive script

Virginia and the Founding of a Nation: Examining the American Revolution on the Eve of the 250th Anniversary

Agricultural workers in field

California Dreamin’: Migration, Work, and Settlement in the “Other” California

NEH Connections

NEH programs, projects, and resources for educators

Media Resource

"Fill Up the Jails": Creative Protest and the Virtual Martin Luther King Project
Media Resource

Adiós Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno