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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A More Perfect Union

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Visualizing Emancipation

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 connection with this timeline.

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BackStory: How Reconstruction Transformed the Constitution

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" of the United States.

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BackStory: What’s Cooking? A History of Food in America

Learn about an eclectic assortment of culinary traditions in this episode of BackStory, funded in part by the NEH.

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BackStory: Darkness over the Plain: The Bison in American History

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.

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BackStory: Making the Team: Sports and Equality in American History

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 the struggles for equality for women athletes and athletes of color have been more visible, less familiar may be the history of sports and decolonization, captured by the idea of "sports sovereignty." Learn more with BackStory.

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BackStory: Saving American History

In this episode of BackStory, learn about some of the people who have created records, archives, and collections that future generations use to study and understand the past.