Interactive African American Voting Rights Government and Civics African American Voting Rights from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo .
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...
Interactive Timeline: Fulfilling America's Founding Principles: African American History Government and Civics
Interactive The Right to Vote, Part 1: The Early Republic through the Civil War Government and Civics The Right to Vote: Part 1 The Early Republic through the Civil War Who could vote in the founding and Jacksonian eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition...
Interactive The Right to Vote, Part 2: Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era Government and Civics The Right to Vote: Part 2 Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era How did access to the vote evolve during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select...
Interactive The Right to Vote, Part 3: Women's Suffrage Government and Civics The Right to Vote: Part 3 Women's Suffrage What was the path to the Nineteenth Amendment? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition are available by clicking ...
Interactive The Right to Vote, Part 4: The Civil Rights Era to the 2000s Government and Civics The Right to Vote: Part 4 The Civil Rights Era to the 2000s How has access to the vote expanded and contracted over the past sixty years? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components...
Classroom Resources Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE VOYAGES Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The...
Classroom Resources Historical Context: Immigration Policy in World War II World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt suspended naturalization proceedings for Italian, German, and Japanese immigrants, required them to register, restricted their mobility, and prohibited them from owning...