This interpretive camp of a small American Indian delegation to Williamsburg explores the life ways of regional indigenous peoples, and their policies with the colony of Virginia.
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 […]
Facts of Congress is a series of twenty 60-second animated videos from Indiana University Center on Representative Government. The videos explore questions like "What is Congress?" "How does Congress work?" and "What does Congress do for me?" Binge them all or hop on for just one or two videos at a time!
"Resettlement: Chicago Story" is an educational program (film + interactive site) that explores one Japanese American family's experience of rebuilding their lives in Chicago after they were released from the incarceration camps in WWII. The cinematic digital history project consists of a narrative short film and an immersive educational website for learners of all ages […]
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 […]
Travel back to the 18th Century as you walk through Downtown York to locations connected to our Founding Fathers. This walking tour expands upon the beginning of the United States as the government we know today. Highlights of the tour include the site of the original Colonial Courthouse where the 2nd Continental Congress resided for […]
Greater Than, a personal finance self-discovery zine that takes a trauma-informed, value-driven approach to money management, is for immigrant daughters, created by an immigrant daughter. The first issue of the zine offers value exercises, an exploration of financial trauma, and an introduction to the concept of collective care. This zine may be particularly helpful for […]
In the January 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified "Four Freedoms," essential human rights that should be universally protected: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. American artist Norman Rockwell later illustrated these rights as aspects of daily American life. Rockwell's paintings were mass-produced […]
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 […]