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 […]
This guide provides background and offers promising ideas for those willing to speak out the strengthen the guardrails of democracy. It identifies the societal forces that have made the nation's democracy vulnerable, the markers of a slide from a democracy to an autocracy, suggestions for countering these markers, and promising avenues for communicating in the […]
The Round Table is a weekly youth-run podcast from Next Generation Politics/YVote, a youth civic engagement nonprofit. The podcast provides a platform for conversation and engagement of civically-minded young people from different parts of the country and strives to model civil dialogue across various divides—socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, political, and regional. We aim to challenge norms […]
Why do we save places? For whom? Who decides? Heritage conservation graduate students at the University of Southern California explore these and other issues through groundbreaking research rooted in their passions and identities. Hear their stories on the award-winning podcast, Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation. You’ll learn about legacy businesses in immigrant neighborhoods, sites of […]
Through the generations many have fought for the right to vote, whether it was the Revolutionary War to free the colonies from the British or the push for Women's Suffrage. That fight was long. That fight was hard. And that fight is ongoing. Check out this history of voting and your role in it's future!
Created in connection with the anniversary of the 19th Amendment being ratified, the York County History Center dives into the history of the Women's Suffrage Movement. We invite you to virtually explore the role of the Justice Bell & York County in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and learn about suffragists like Anna Dill Gamble and […]
"The Orange Story" is an award-winning educational online tool (film + interactive site) to learn about the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the west coast as part of Japanese American WWII incarceration history. This project is a film in four parts explored through an interactive website that contains primary and secondary sources, specially curated […]
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 […]
An excerpt from "Lost Nation: The Ioway 2" focused on the Ioway Nation's use of a hand-drawn map, depicting 200 years of tribal history, in an 1837 U.S. land claim dispute.