Civic Season

How the House of Representatives Gets Elected
2023-05-03 19:23 UTC | New American History, United States
Electing the House is a collection of learning resources to explore how voting patterns have changed over time. Interactive maps, videos and Tweets are included to learn how the House of Representatives has evolved via the history of elections. Find you own district, use the slider tool and see how voting has changed in your community. (Teacher and student views available)

Meet the Presidents and Explore a Replica of the Oval Office
2023-05-03 19:23 | New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, United States
A special permanent gallery on New-York Historical’s fourth floor features a detailed re-creation of the White House Oval Office, where presidents have exercised their powers, duties, and responsibilities since 1909. Visitors to New-York Historical can explore the Oval Office and hear audio recordings of presidential musings.

Podcast: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove, New York
2023-05-03 19:23 | New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, United States
During weekends and summers in the pre-Stonewall era, gay men and women, including many New Yorkers, traveled to the secluded beach town of Cherry Grove on Fire Island where they found opportunities for sexual exploration and self-expression—behavior that was both stigmatized and criminalized in the straight world.

Create Your Own Story Project with OurStoryBridge
2023-05-03 19:23 | OurStoryBridge, United States
OurStoryBridge, at www.ourstorybridge.org, is a free resource and tool kit for producing an online, crowdsourced, community story project and is designed to help libraries, historical societies, issue-related organizations, and others create their own story projects using Adirondack Community at www.myadirondackstory.org as a model. Take a look at the Tool Kit to understand how to start an online story project, listen to sample stories to learn about what communities say about where they live, and go to the Teacher’s Guide in the Tool Kit for summaries and links to 300+ stories from across the country. Laugh, cry, and learn with us.

Celebrate Juneteenth Along the Waterfront
2023-05-03 19:23 | Historic Alexandria, United States
Celebrate with The Washington Revels Jubilee Voices ensemble for Juneteeth. The vocal group is committed to the preservation of African American history and traditions–presenting songs and stories of struggle and perseverance, trials, and triumphs, as expressed through a cappella music, drama, and dance. This concert will feature the ensemble singing at sites important to Alexandria’s African American history.

Indigenous Mariners of Coastal North Carolina
2023-05-03 19:23 | North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport, Southport, NC, United States
Click through an exploration of the first inhabitants of the Lower Cape Fear in North Carolina, what became of these early tribes, and what we learn from them today.

Culinary Traditions within the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma with Chef Nico Albert
2023-05-03 19:23 | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, OK, United States
How do you decolonize your diet to honor traditional foodways? Join Chef Nico Albert to learn about her efforts to revitalize indigenous cuisine and connect even more deeply to her community in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma through indigenous ingredients and traditional foods.

How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
2023-05-03 19:23 | Kentucky Historical Society, United States
On the night of January 21, 1897, a white mob attacked the home of George Dinning, a formerly enslaved farmer in Simpson County, Kentucky. As the crowd fired their guns into his house, Dinning shot back in self-defense, killing a young man. “So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history – one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction.” Join us via Zoom* as journalist Ben Montgomery shares this dramatic and unlikely story of justice, “in a time and place where justice was all too rare.”
This speaker series was held on July 2nd, 2021.

Meet Jazz Master Wendy Oxenhorn
2023-05-03 19:23 | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, United States
Wendy Oxenhorn speaks about her work with Children of Substance, an organization formed to help the children of substance abusers, and Street News, a newspaper created to provide legitimate employment for NYC panhandlers.

Learn About Jazz Musician John Levy
2023-05-03 19:23 | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, United States
Listen to John Levy discuss his experiences as a jazz musician during the time of segregation and explore other relevant sources.

Visit an urban garden from the American Revolution
2023-05-03 19:23 | Historic Alexandria, 517 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, 22314, United States
Explore the Garden at the Murray-Dick-Fawcett House. The small lot, which contains 1770s timber frame and brick dwelling, and a small garden, was one of the few buildings in existence in the area during the American Revolution. Reflect on the formation of our nation in this urban garden.

How did people respond to Lincoln's death?
2023-05-03 19:23 | Ford’s Theatre, United States
Remembering Lincoln: How did people around the United States feel after the death of President Abraham Lincoln? What did they say? Browse through their responses as they dealt with a time of uncertainty and grief.

Watch the National Youth Summit on Woman Suffrage: The Ballot and Beyond
2023-05-03 19:23 | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, United States
Are the tactics used by suffragists to fight for political power still effective? Suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment marked an important moment in the progression of women’s participation in our democracy and civic life. Yet it was an imperfect victory, and one that stands neither as a beginning nor an end, but as an important milestone in the fight for equality, justice and representation. The 2019 National Youth Summit looked at woman suffrage as an example of how groups with limited political power have and continue to shape our democracy using strategies and tools, like the vote and public protest, to give voice to issues and galvanize fellow Americans into communal movements for change.

Short Film: Working in the Caroon Crab Factory
2023-05-03 19:23 | North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport, Southport, NC, United States
Join the NC Maritime Museum at Southport in taking a deeper look into what it was like to work in the longest running crab factory in Southport, C.B. Caroon Crab Factory. The seafood industry has a rich history in Southport, NC. A great deal of the work on and off of the water was done by African Americans. Crab and shrimp houses were two businesses who relied heavily on African American women to prepare seafood for sale.

Wayback Wednesday: Learn about St. Mary's County, Maryland
2023-05-03 19:23 | St. Mary’s County Museum Division, St. Mary's County, MD, United States
Join us every Wednesday around noon for new short videos featuring everything from the quirky to the fascinating about St. Mary’s County and Southern Maryland.

Nellie Bly: Around the World
2023-05-03 19:23 | Senator John Heinz History Center, United States
On Nov. 14, 1889, New York World reporter and Western Pa. native Nellie Bly started a 25,000-mile journey around the world, inspired by the popular Jules Verne book “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Nearly 131 years later, we’re sharing her adventures in real time. Follow her thrilling journey around the globe here now through January 2021.

Learning Circle: Conversations to Shift from Division to Understanding
2023-05-03 19:22 | National Conference on Citizenship, United States
America Talks (June 12-13, A Weekend of Connection in the Midst of Deep Division) will bring thousands of Americans together across differences to engage in one-on-one, face-to-face conversation on video to help mend our social fabric. Helping Americans shift from division and contempt to connection and understanding.

Attend July 4th Naturalization Ceremony
2023-05-03 19:22 | Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello, United States
“…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
These poignant words have inspired people around the world. Yet, this promise remains unfulfilled for many Americans. Join us Saturday, July 4, at 11 a.m. (EDT) as we virtually commemorate both the powerful words of the Declaration of Independence and how generations have fought—and continue to fight—to make these ideas real.

Explore the Adirondack Community Story Project
2023-05-03 19:22 | OurStoryBridge, United States
Over 180 three to five-minute audio stories with photographs relate the past and present of a unique rural Upstate New York community. Lessons can be learned from the catastrophes the community survived, famous people who visited, mountain adventures, Olympics and Olympians, social change, challenges, and fascinating people of all ages. Listen to one story or work your way through the website!

Steaming into the 20th Century: The Advent of Steam Technology in North Carolina
2023-05-03 19:22 | NC Maritime Museum at Southport, United States
Join our crew in learning about the Age of Steam and the communities of the Lower Cape Fear during the turn of the 20th century. This exhibit will explore how steam engines work, the island and beach communities, travel within the region and around the world, as well as the African American experience in this post-Civil War era. Access the exhibit through the title above. Enjoy images, news clippings, videos, and more!

Dive into Cambridge, Mass. History
2023-05-03 19:22 | History Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
The History Cambridge Did You Know? blog explores the many facets of local history in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We examine how the past influences the present in order to shape a better future.

American Muslims: A Forgotten History
2023-05-03 19:22 | American Muslim History, United States
Beginning in the 16th century with the arrival of the first Muslims to America as part of the Spanish conquests, this project will trace the waves of migration and conversion that have created the diverse but often misunderstood Muslim communities that exist across the nation today.

Take the Sworn-Again America Oath
2023-05-03 19:22 | Citizen University, United States
When immigrants become American citizens, they learn the history and the civic scripture of our nation. They take a test and come together to take an oath. We got to thinking… what would it look like for all of us to take an oath? To become a Sworn-Again American? We’ve put together an oath for all Americans—whether you’ve just arrived or your family has been here since time immemorial.

Last Call: Beer Futures
2023-05-03 19:22 | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, United States
With more than 8,000 breweries, the United States is home to the most dynamic and creative small brewing industry in the world. Yet as the industry grew, many were excluded from its ranks. Today’s brewers face threats associated with the pandemic, the brewing supply chain, and climate change. What lies ahead? The future of American beer must be inclusive. It must be environmentally sustainable. It will be even more creative than its past. And it promises flavors and styles that have not yet been imagined. Join us for a conversation among several innovators who are imagining—and creating—new futures for American beer, from grain and flower to glass.

Listen to "UnTextbooked"
2023-05-03 19:22 | got history?, United States
These conversations between teens and historians bring the full power of history to you with depth and vividness that textbooks lack. Real history, to help you find answers to your big questions.

Listen to "Celebrating the Fourth" Podcast Episode
2023-05-03 19:22 | Omohundro Institute/ Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History, United States
How do our fireworks displays, barbecues, parades, and sporting events compare to the first and earliest celebrations of independence? How and why do we celebrate the United States and its independence as we do? Historical experts Benjamin E. Park, Jay Hinesley, and Shira Lurie take us through the early American origins of Fourth of July celebration.

Explore "In Service and Servitude" Online Exhibit
2023-05-03 19:22 | American Civil War Museum, United States
Explore the lives and experiences of the enslaved and free workers in the Confederate Presidents House through this Google Arts and Culture online exhibit.

Explore African American History in Alexandria
2023-05-03 19:22 | Historic Alexandria, Alexandria, VA, United States
From Parker Gray school photos to Black Lives Remembered protest objects, explore images and objects from Historic Alexandria that tell the story of our community.

The Horse's Tail: Revolution & Memory in Early New York City, Podcast
2023-05-03 19:22 | Omohundro Institute/Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, United States
The horse’s tail is all that remains of George III in New York City. On July 9, 1776, New Yorkers pulled down their statue of the king. They reveled in its destruction and decapitation and melted much of its remains into bullets. Join Ben Franklin’s World and Humanities New York for “The Horse’s Tail,” an episode that explores the first dramatic acts of the American Revolution in New York City and how our memories of the event reveal changing meanings of independence, then and now.

How Have Americans Responded to Immigration?
2023-05-03 19:22 | National Archives, United States
In this activity, you will analyze documents related to immigration in the United States. Then you will determine whether immigration was welcomed or feared by Americans, and to what degree, by placing each document on the scale according to their analysis.
