Interactive African American Voting Rights Government and Civics African American Voting Rights from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo .
Interactive Alan G. Rogers Alan G. Rogers Iraq & Afghanistan Alan G. Rogers served in the Army during the Gulf and Iraq Wars. For his master’s thesis in policy management from Georgetown, Rogers wrote about the effect of the US military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on...
Classroom Resources Historical Context: American Slavery and Abolition through Hollywood 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Throughout the twentieth century, many influential Hollywood films, such as Birth of a Nation , Gone with the Wind , Glory , and Amistad , have helped shape the way Americans have thought about slavery and its legacy. Birth of a...
Classroom Resources Infographic: The Civil Rights Revolution: Interpreting Statistics Economics, Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 African American Voter Registrations Questions to Think About What difference did the Voting Rights Act make in black voter participation in the states that had been part of the Confederacy? In which states was the impact greatest? ...
Interactive Perry Watkins Perry Watkins Cold War Perry Watkins served fifteen years in the Army as an openly gay man. Despite this, in 1980, the Army revoked his security clearance and had him discharged because he was gay, a discharge he successfully fought in court. Image...