Despite many big challenges facing our natural world, Earth Optimism is a global conservation movement that celebrates a shift in focus from problem to solution. Our Teen Earth Optimism programs aim to change the climate conversation from doom and gloom to optimism and opportunity.
The Road to Freedom Tour Guide highlights Virginia’s Civil War-era African American experience, encouraging visitors and Virginians alike to uncover these little-known stories of strife, growth, community, and more. It unleashes the power of both perspective and place and introduces historical figures that have been given little voice until now. This application allows you to […]
Visit the Great Plains Black History Museum to learn about the contributions and achievements of African Americans with an emphasis on the Great Plains region. To provide a space to learn, explore, reflect, and remind us of our history.
Wednesday, Jun. 16, 7 p.m. via Zoom Presenters: Earl Ijames, Curator of African American, Agriculture, and Community History, North Carolina Museum of History; Chrystal Regan, Education Section Chief, North Carolina Museum of History Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day in 1865 (June 19th) when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to take control […]
Listen in as Richard Rothstein and Lila Corwin Berman discuss contemporary racial segregation across the United States. The panelists will dig into the history of public housing projects, suburbanization, and the actions of the federal housing administration and then interrogate the racial segregation and income gap in America today as a byproduct of explicit government […]
In the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, our goal is to teach the public that that the ocean is a global system essential to all life on our planet, including yours. In this course, we will explore the ocean from the coast to the deep sea, and from our […]
This course introduces the basics of climate science and communication strategies to help empower individuals to talk about climate change as a means to inspire action.
What does Memorial Day mean to you? Is it just cookouts? Solemn appreciation for the nation’s dead? Do you think it has different meanings to different people? Explore what Memorial Day celebrations tell us about conflicting recollections and differences of opinion in American memory.
These interviews, recorded between 1978 and 1980, allowed surviving veterans of the First World War to share their experiences, in their own words. The recordings have been digitized and are now available for listening on YouTube. If available, transcripts are also linked below.
The Road to Freedom Tour Guide highlights the Black experience in Civil War-era Virginia. Through the app you will learn about and interact with these little-known stories of strife, growth, community, and more. It unleashes the power of both perspective and place by introducing historical figures that have been given little voice until now. You […]
From William Carney, born into slavery, who became the first Black may to earn the Medal of Honor. To Deborah Sampson, who successfully disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental Army. Meet more than 450 fascinating Americans who shaped the first century of our nation.
Short oral histories of people connected to Intrepid' s collections , including veterans, a Concorde pilot and the former head of NASA.