Media Resources

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 ideas about genre, race, and nation were formed in the transnational circulation of people and records.

Although only 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been ratified, thousands of proposed amendments have been introduced in Congress or circulated in public petitions. The Amendments Project compiles, classifies, and analyzes these proposed amendments to the Constitution. In addition to providing an overview of constitutional history and the amendment process, the site enables advanced search and filtering of the amendments database, making it an effective hands-on introduction to using search tools for research.

Funded in part by the NEH, Chicago00: A Flight on the 1893 Ferris Wheel is a two-minute virtual reality (VR) video simulating the experience of riding the original Ferris Wheel, built as the central attraction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

In this episode of NEH-funded BackStory, learn how the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition showcased exclusion and inequality in addition to the latest achievements in science, technology, art, and education.

Esther Krinitz's art and story provide a powerful lens through which young people can view and reflect on important issues and themes raised by the Holocaust.