Civic Season

Explore the "We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist D.C." Exhibition
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | National Women’s History Museum, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
This special exhibition traces Black feminism in Washington, D.C. from the turn of the 20th century through the civil rights and Black Power movements to today.
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist D.C. is on view on the first floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. as part of a groundbreaking partnership between the National Women’s History Museum and D.C. Public Library. You can also explore the exhibit virtually!
Visit the exhibition for free through September 2024, and explore online resources related the Black Feminist DC at womenshistory.org/BlackFeministDC.

Stowe House Tours
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 77 Forest Street, Hartford, CT, 06106, United States
A 45 – 60 min tour of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home in Hartford, CT. The tours teach about her life and literary career while blending social justice conversations that link back to her international best-selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

60-Second History Series
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Made By Us, United States
Only got a second? Explore 60-Second Histories on Instagram, hosted by Made By Us’ Cameron Katz. Follow @historymadebyus for more!

Flag Day: Citizenship in a One-Room School
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Fourth Wall Films, United States
Flag Day originated in a one-room school in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Learn about the schoolhouse, now a National Historic Site, and how America’s early one-room schools were designed to provide basic education and to turn immigrants into American citizens.

The 1837 Ioway Map - A Native Nation and the Importance of Story and Place
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Fourth Wall Films, United States
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.

No Playbook - School Integration During Massive Resistance
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, United States
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 enforced boundaries and charted new social norms.
As recently as the 1960s, most schools in the American South were racially segregated. Resistance to school desegregation in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, continued for at least a decade more. During that time, it was not just classrooms that were changing; it was sports teams, school hallways, and communities as a whole. The oral histories of dozens of former students, many of them athletes, offer first-hand reflections of what it was like during those years of unprecedented change. How did desegregation actually take place when “there was no playbook?” Find out from those who lived it.

"The Orange Story" - Online learning resource on Japanese American forced removal and incarceration
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Full Spectrum Features, United States
“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 [total run time: 15:10] explored through an interactive website that contains primary and secondary sources, specially curated by a team of top scholars. Watch the trailer for the short film here: https://youtu.be/mgsLmjkzhyw

Essential Pieces Exhibit Talk
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | York County History Center, PA, United States
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.

Essential Pieces
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | York County History Center, PA, United States
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 provided a fuller narrative of our community’s rich and diverse history in the format of a timeline.

Dive Into the Making of the Constitution
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | George Washington’s Mount Vernon, United States
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 interactive map.

What Does Justice Mean to You?
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | York County History Center, United States
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 Etha Cowels Armstrong.

Bridging the Gap: Films on Bridging Deep Divides
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Interfaith America, United States
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. Whether you watch these films on your own or with a student group, we hope they serve as a catalyst for your own bridgebuilding work on your campus and in your community.

Get to know Utah women's advocates in history!
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Better Days, UT, United States
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 up and speaking out, illustrated by Brooke Smart.

Get Ready to Vote with the History of Voting Rights
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | ActiVote, United States
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!

Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation Podcast
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Heritage Conservation Programs, University of Southern California, United States
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 racial violence and havens of substance use recovery, fictional history and acoustic heritage, and so much more. You’ll also hear how alums are transforming what we know as “historic preservation” into a people-centered practice that works for everyone. Listen at saveas.place or wherever you get your podcasts, and connect with us @saveasnextgen on Instagram.

The Round Table Podcast Playlists
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Next Generation Politics / YVote, United States
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 and represent all kinds of diversity—especially of perspective and ideas—enabling listeners to “hear” our thinking. These curated playlists offer listeners a selection of episodes around civic learning, bridging divides, and youth voting. The Round Table is 100% created and edited by young people committed to building a more just and joyous world.

Interactive exhibit "The Four Freedoms: Real and Imagined"
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | America’s National Churchill Museum, 501 Westminster Ave., Fulton, MO, 65251, United States
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 on magazine covers and propaganda posters to promote the war effort, becoming the face of the Four Freedoms.
“The Four Freedoms: Real and Imagined” explores and contextualizes the Four Freedoms by comparing the ideals depicted by Rockwell with people’s actual experiences in the United States during World War II.
You’re invited to step inside a recreation of the dining room of Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want” image and re-imagine the scene.
This exhibition was conceived, curated, and installed by Westminster College Museum Studies students.

Greater Than: A Personal Finance Self-Discovery Guide for Immigrant Daughters
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Greater Than, United States
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 women who are first-generation college students and recent graduates.

Revolutionary York Walking Tour
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | York County History Center, 250 East Market St, York, PA, 17401, United States
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 9 months, site of the temporary treasury, and more.

A guide: Speaking Out to Strengthen the Guardrails of Democracy
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Divided Community Project and Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies, United States
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 midst of the information fog. It includes a four-page checklist for speaking out and illustrations of people speaking out constructively.

"Resettlement: Chicago Story" the short film
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Full Spectrum Features, Chicago, IL, United States
“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 who are interested in post-WWII U.S. history.
Utilizing the power of cinematic storytelling, the educational website builds upon both the characters and historical themes of incarceration and resettlement introduced in the film. The film functions to create emotional investment in the characters and the time period and builds the world for the website, which provides the context of the historical period through primary and secondary sources carefully curated by a team of historians. “Resettlement: Chicago Story” is aimed towards 6-12th grade students but is easily adaptable to other grade levels and the general public.

Video Series: Facts of Congress
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Indiana University Center on Representative Government, United States
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!

Encountering the First American West
2026-05-09 09:25 (America/New_York) | Filson Historical Society, KY, United States
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 and the University of Chicago, “The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (FAW)” was an early digitization project that launched in 2000. While it was an early standard bearer for digital history, it became unavailable in 2016 when the Library of Congress ended support for the project.
In our relaunch, an NEH-funded research team has expanded the project to highlight the experiences of those originally excluded, including the voices of women, those enslaved, and the Indigenous communities that called our region home.
We’re so excited to share this digital project with you, and we invite you to explore!

Digital Futurism: Evening Conversations
2026-05-09 09:25 UTC | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Martin Luther King Jr Public Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, 20001, United States
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 for decades to come. That’s the focus of an exhibition being planned at the National Museum of Natural History for 2023 – and we need to talk about it! What can we dream up together to ensure that our tech reflects us?
Two evening conversations at the D.C. Public Library feature a panel of Black women futurists, designers, artists, musicians, and novelists who have influenced this tech and how we use it. You’ll take away a new understanding of the factors that shape our relationship with technology, and be invited to interact in a community-style re-imagining of our future.
Join for one night or both, and come ready to participate, connect with others, and learn from experts!
(You must register for both events separately).
Evening One (Panel Discussion), June 29
Warm-ups // Lightning Talks from Leaders // Brainstorming Challenges + Solutions
Featuring:
Carolyn Malachi, mix engineer, producer, Grammy-nominated artist, and educator
Allissa Richardson (via Zoom), journalist, professor and author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism
Kamal Sinclair (via Zoom), former Executive Director, Guild of Future Architects
Ashleigh Coren, Smithsonian Institution
Register
Evening Two (w/ Nnedi Okorafor), June 30
Warm-ups // Community Storytelling: Imagining Our Future
Featuring:
Nnedi Okorafor (via Zoom), science fiction and fantasy novelist
Ashleigh Coren, Smithsonian Institution
Register
*These are free IN PERSON events designed for 18-25 year olds (but all are welcome). Some presenters will be participating virtually. The events will not be recorded, so we hope to see you there.*
This program received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
The exhibit and future programming of Cellphone: Unseen Connections is made possible by lead sponsor Qualcomm with additional major support by T-Mobile.

American Indian Encampment
2026-05-09 09:25 UTC | Colonial Williamsburg, Intersection of Nicholson & Botetourt Streets, Williamsburg, 23185, United States
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.
