Multimedia

The Civil Rights Movement

These videos and podcasts by eminent scholars, master teachers, and other speakers open a variety of ways to explore American history. The presentations range from two- or three-minute interview clips to hour-long lectures. Whether you watch them in class, assign them to your students for homework, or download them to your iPod for a long road trip, each one can give you new insight into the past.

America at the End of the Twentieth Century, Part 2

Speaker(s): James Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Brown v. Board of Education and Its Effect on Civil Rights

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

Non-Violent Methods of Protest

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Speaker(s): Anthony J. Badger Duration: 0 seconds

The Civil Rights Movement

Speaker(s): Clarence Taylor Duration: 0 seconds

What are the legacies of the civil rights movement?

Speaker(s): Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Duration: 0 seconds

Multimedia from Other Sub-Eras

African American Abolitionists

Speaker(s): Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Duration: 0 seconds

Defining the Twentieth Century

Speaker(s): Edward L. Ayers Duration: 0 seconds

Great Biographies: African American Athletes

Speaker(s): Henry Louis Gates Jr. Duration: 0 seconds

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Speaker(s): David Reynolds Duration: 0 seconds

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Q&A

Speaker(s): David Reynolds Duration: 0 seconds

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Speaker(s): Alice Kessler-Harris Duration: 0 seconds

Introduction to Supreme Court Controversies throughout History

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

Key Moments in American Freedom

Speaker(s): Orlando Patterson Duration: 0 seconds

Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II

Speaker(s): Joseph W. Trotter Duration: 0 seconds

The Legal Battle for Racial Equality, 1787–1954

Speaker(s): Larry Kramer Duration: 0 seconds

The Origins of the Cold War

Speaker(s): John Lewis Gaddis Duration: 0 seconds