Calling all up-and-coming history-makers and creatives! What do you dream for the future? Could the start of that future be right in the palm of your hand? What can we imagine and invent together, inspired by technology? For better or for worse, cellphones have shaped who we are as a global society, and they will […]
With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Filson Historical Society is excited to announce the re-launch of the First American West, an online collection of letters, financial records, maps, and objects relating to the Ohio River Valley in the mid-1700s through the early 1800s. Originally a collaboration with the Library of Congress […]
The York County History Center believes that we can not tell our story without your story. This exhibit is the first in a series of exhibits that highlights those who have been historically excluded. Former Community Historian Ophelia Chambliss worked within the Black community to collect stories through the Share Your Story project. Her work […]
Hear from former Community Historian, Ophelia Chambliss as she discusses elements of the Essential Pieces exhibit. The Essential Pieces exhibit is a timeline that provides a fuller narrative of our community's rich and diverse history.
The story of Virginia’s Massive Resistance to Brown v. Board has been told many times. Most of those treatments focus on the political, legal, and educational aspects of desegregation. Often lost in these histories are the personal experiences of those whose lives were most immediately affected—the young people who were the first to cross previously […]
A 45 - 60 min tour of Harriet Beecher Stowe's home in Hartford, CT. The tours teach about her life and literary career while blending social justice conversations that link back to her international best-selling novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In the summer of 2020, weeks after George Floyd’s murder, The Nantucket Project assembled a diverse team of Americans who traveled the length of the Mississippi River by car stopping in small towns and big cities to host public conversations about race in America. From Minneapolis to New Orleans, locals from all walks of life […]
Freedom Summer 1964 is a free digital learning tool that explores key events surrounding the early years of the Civil Rights Movement, the 1964 Mississippi voter registration drive, and the eventual passage of both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The History Film Forum is an online series from the Smithsonian that explores history on the screen and the evolution of film as public history. The Harlem Cultural Festival took place the same summer as Woodstock and boasted an attendance on a par with that event 100 miles away. More than 300,000 people filled Mount […]
We’re excited to bring you a new weekly video series showing some of the stories that make St. Mary’s County’s (Maryland) history so unique and interesting, called “Wayback Wednesdays”. Join us every week for short videos featuring everything from the quirky to the fascinating, as well as lots of stories about Black, female and other […]
A brief history of Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in US sports -- and in business, as well as his work fighting for civil rights.