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This video guides researchers through the basics of using the Chronicling America database, including entering search terms, filtering by year and state, sorting results, and sharing and…
This video guides researchers through the advanced search features of the Chronicling America database, including filtering by state, newspaper title, date range, page number, and language…
This episode of NEH-funded BackStory explores the idea of assimilation in the United States from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, with connections to current events.…
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…
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This media resource features a guide to searching topics of race and ethnicity in Chronicling America, including a thesaurus of historically accurate keywords that may help produce more…
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Chris Brown and Jason Deitch discuss the NEH-funded project "War Ink," which collaborates with veterans and libraries to tell the stories of veterans' tattoo art.
This NEH-supported interview with Ernie LaPointe, great-grandson of Sitting Bull and author of Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, and Cedric Good House, discusses the Lakota leader's life…
The Black Archives of Mid-America, located in Kansas City, Missouri, was founded by Horace Peterson III in 1974. Today, the Black Archives houses some of the most important sources related to the…
By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents, and personal correspondence from this collection, students will immerse themselves in the past and discover the…
This episode of BackStory recounts the turbulent history of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Each segment below contains a clip from the podcast as well as a set of comprehension questions to…
This episode of BackStory discusses the ways people in the U.S. have responded to technological changes over the centuries, highlighting that suspicion of such changes is often reasonable…
A collection of essays and lessons created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and National History Day as part of the NEH’s special initiative to advance civic education and the study of…
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Smarthistory is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that offers free resources on art, history, and art history for classrooms and public enjoyment. Curated by scholars from around the…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.