Media Resources

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.

This media resource features a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may facilitate searching African American history and topics in Chronicling America. Primary documents from the past contain sensitive content, and the suggested keywords are often offensive to several different communities of people.

This resource is part of EDSITEment’s Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America. Here you will find historically accurate keywords that may help in using the Chronicling America historic newspaper database to research topics in Native American history.  

Selma, Alabama served as a major site of civil unrest in response to the disabling conditions of Jim Crow laws for Black Americans in the South. This page outlines Selma’s history, the Bloody Sunday massacre, and the ensuing responses to these racial injustices. Testimonies from activists and foot soldiers recorded by faculty and graduate students at Auburn University offer a comprehensive survey of Selma’s civil rights history and maps the legacy of these protests onto social justice movements in the twenty-first century.