This teaching guide includes a structured guide to explaining the case to students, a classroom exercise on the value of tolerating hateful speech, and a classroom exercise to think about the harms of hateful speech.
The definitive online exhibition and archives about how American experiences of race and ethnicity have shaped and been shaped by the development of advertising over the course of the 20th century.
Being born in the United States was not always a guaranteed path to citizenship.
Segregation and equality in America was a case of double standards.
Historians cannot claim to prove beyond doubt that occurrences in the past did or did not happen.
Historians have attempted to account for the great admiration that whites had for Tecumseh.
An array of primary sources follows the rise of the consumer economy under Coolidge.
Artifacts preserve the lifestyles of current and former American Indian tribes of the Northern Great Plains, 1870-1954.
Learn about the volunteers who participated in a 1965 Southern Christian Leadership Conference voter registration effort.
Pamphlets and documents from 1875 to 1900 highlight African American leaders and organizations.
With over 300,000 pages available for full-text searching, this is one of the richest collections of anti-slavery and Civil War materials in the world.
Discover connections between race and place in this archive documenting the effects of Jim Crow on a Virginia town.
Four collections of data and documents address Federal Indian policy in the late 19th century.
From the Ku Klux Klan to the IWW, examine 129 historical documents from radical organizations.
Take a look through more than 30,000 items relating to African American life in Ohio between 1850 and 1920.
Secondary and primary sources describe 13 African American migration experiences.
Illustrations follow European interpretations of Native Americans, through images from popular culture, literary and political observations, and artistic representations.
Follow the proceedings of the Dred Scott case with facsimiles and transcriptions of 85 legal documents.
Primary and secondary sources document the minority struggle for civil rights in Seattle’s history.
Presents the life and work of black activist Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Primary and secondary sources examine the growing divisions in Kansas and the nation prior to the Civil War.
Nine galleries explore the history of slavery in New York City.
Trace the history of Africans in America through Reconstruction, with 245 images, maps, and documents.
Provides teaching and reference materials on the women’s rights movement of the past 50 years.
Explore all of the known published slave narratives, to better understand the experience of slavery and the culture that slaves created in the nation.
Offers 45 mini-monographs on U.S. women’s history, each organized around an analytical question concerning a social movement.
Primary sources point out cultural connections between the experiences of African and Irish Americans.
Memorializes Roland Marchand with more than 6,100 images, including more than 2,000 advertisements, and 48 lesson plans drawn from his collection.
Explore this archive of over 110 video interviews on Japanese American incarceration during World War II.
An assemblage of more than 80 photographs and postcards of lynchings, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Peruse this collection of over 900 items relating to Chicago’s Hull House to discover its influence on 20th century urban development.
Explore Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as the American cultural phenomenon it was.
Provides full-text transcriptions and page images of 1815–1865 Sunday school books addressing religious instruction for youth.
Recreates the P.T. Barnum Museum as an interactive 3D exhibit and an archive of images, documents, accounts, and essays on 16 original Barnum exhibits.
Scanned images of more than 18,000 pieces of sheet music, including covers, published prior to 1923.
Read about crimes committed in the former Confederate states between 1865 to 1868.
Documents the 1704 raid on Deerfield, MA, by 300 French and their Native American allies.
Documents and analytical essays emphasize the social history of Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1691.
12 collections provide primary sources on ads, health and medicine, the Civil War, sheet music, and more.
Examines the history and culture of the state of Georgia, presenting an extensive range of primary sources.
Databases of digitized firsthand accounts and literary works document periods in American history, the experiences of minorities, and other topics.
Digitizes Indian Affairs, a seven-volume compendium of treaties, laws, and executive orders relating to U.S.-Indian affairs from 1778 to 1970.
Examine segregation and desegregation through summaries and the court’s opinions for two major cases.
150 oral history interviews and 16 collections of documents address the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
Ansel Adams’s photographs preserve life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II.
Documents the lives of Native Americans in the Northwest Coast and Plateau regions of the Pacific Northwest in text and photographs.
Presents the complete text of the Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, along with supplementary secondary sources.
Provides transcriptions and images of more than 4,000 newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants between 1736 and 1803.
Showcases more than 1,230 images depicting the enslavement of Africans, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and slave life in the New World.
Presents articles from 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, magazines, and books, with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic region.