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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…
A video interview series conducted with Sam Mihara, a Japanese American incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during WWII, that includes primary sources and other materials.
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…
From the exhausted hope of the Joads to the tenacity of Cesar Chavez; from the austere Garveyian self-reliance of Allensworth to the lyricism of the Bakersfield Sound, very few locales have…
On July 9, 1860, the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama. On board were 110 enslaved Africans transported directly from West Africa. They were the last enslaved persons imported to the United…
Join eminent historians, literary scholars, design and architectural historians, and archivists for a week-long NEH “Landmarks of American History and Culture” workshop that will give you new…
This program explores Virginia’s and the nation’s journey of school desegregation following Brown v. Board of Education. It highlights African Americans' roles, Virginia’s resistance, early steps…
This summer institute invites participants to the beautiful seacoast of New Hampshire where archaeology is revealing new insights into what happened when English colonists came 400 years ago,…
This workshop will focus on the twin themes of history and memory, and how together they reinforce the perception of Gettysburg as “hallowed ground.” Led by specialists in Civil War history,…
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Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations” will examine history through the neighborhood of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, California. Joined by scholars, educators, curators,…
If you have a special request or any questions about authorized use, contact the NEH Office of Publications at publications@neh.gov or (202) 606…
Digital archives have the power to bring library and museum collections directly to your screen! In this video, experts from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Burke Museum of Natural…