Media Resources

EDSITEment provides access to NEH-funded media resources including videos, podcasts, lectures, interactives for the classroom, and film projects. Each resource includes questions to prompt analysis, connections to other NEH-related resources, and links to related EDSITEment lessons and materials.

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

With funding from NEH, the Virtual Martin Luther King Project, or vMLK, offers an innovative resource for teaching one of King’s important but unrecorded speeches. Delivered on February 16, 1960 in Durham, North Carolina—just over two weeks into the now historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-in a few hours away in Greensboro—Dr. King’s speech, “A Creative Protest,” came to be known as “Fill Up the Jails” because, for the first time, he encouraged activists to disrupt and break the law through nonviolent confrontation, even if it meant “filling up the jails.” 

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2018 Jefferson Lecture: Dr. Rita Charon

Dr. Rita Charon delivered the 2018 Jefferson Lecture, titled, "To See the Suffering: The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs," on Monday, October 15, 2018. In her lecture, Dr. Charon meditates on the relationship between art and medicine, and the ways in which the humanities can help us to "see the complex lived experience" of people facing health problems, to understand their suffering.