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!
Did you know Utah women were the first in the U.S. to vote under equal suffrage laws? Discover the stories of frontier suffragists and changemakers from every era at utahwomenshistory.org. The women's history nonprofit group Better Days has put together a growing library of bios and articles about Utah women who've made history by standing […]
These Bridging the Gap films offer a variety of insights and perspectives into the hard and important work of bridgebuilding across our deepest divides. Don't miss "Differences: A Student's Story," which highlights Elizabeth Stewart, an evangelical Christian student and racial justice advocate, and her transformation as she goes through the process of Bridging the Gap. […]
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 […]
Explore the United States Constitution by streaming "A More Perfect Union," a 21-minute film that explores how the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation led to the Constitutional Convention and ultimately to the ratification of a new constitution. After watching, test your knowledge of the Constitution with quizzes and explore the ratification process using an […]
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 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.