Interactive African American Voting Rights Government and Civics African American Voting Rights from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo .
Video American History and the World Economics NYU Professor of the Humanities Thomas Bender argues that the idea of American exceptionalism has hobbled the study of American history. Bender traces the study of history from the "men of letters" historians of the nineteenth...
Video: Book Breaks Jacqueline Jones - "No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era" Economics, Geography, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and a past president of the American Historical Association. Order No Right to an Honest Living at the Gilder Lehrman...
Classroom Resources Infographic: Industrialization: American Labor Economics 9, 10, 11, 12 View this infographic as a downloadable PDF. If you would like to learn more about Industrialization, view " Industrialization: Changing Living Standards " and " Industrialization: The Growth of Industry ." ...
Video What Are the Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement? Government and Civics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Jewish American Soldiers & Jewish Refugees after World War II Geography, Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In the wake of World War II, American servicemen helped Jewish refugees come to the United States. Join us as we learn more about the servicemen’s work through primary sources. Who were these people? What are their stories? On...
Video Myths of the American Revolution Government and Civics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, contrasts the popular memory of the Revolutionary War with its more complicated realities. She argues that although many of us were...