The Voter Information Center has everything you need to know about elections in Rhode Island. You can register to vote, update your voter record, learn about upcoming elections, view your ballot before election day, and more! Be sure to explore the infographics, animations, and information about voter turnout in Rhode Island at the bottom of […]
The Voter Information Center has everything you need to know about elections in Rhode Island. You can register to vote, update your voter record, learn about upcoming elections, view your ballot before election day, and more! Be sure to explore the infographics, animations, and information about voter turnout in Rhode Island at the bottom of […]
DICCE Resource Guides are short guides to help you understand different backgrounds, unlearn and relearn history and pursue equity.
Celebrate young voters and the activists working to expand their rights with this communications toolkit created by the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition’s 26th Amendment Working Group! This toolkit helps participants take part in a campaign that will be taking place over the next six months, highlighting a different student activist each week.
We support everyone engaging in the Civic Season! Join our team at New American History as we explore local museums and historical sites, hare and engage in dialogues both face to face and online, and encourage others to become a part of America's future via civic engagement and exploration of the past as we prepare […]
We support everyone engaging in the Civic Season! Join our team at New American History as we explore local museums and historical sites, hare and engage in dialogues both face to face and online, and encourage others to become a part of America's future via civic engagement and exploration of the past as we prepare […]
What does civic media look like, and how can it compete with social media? What are the benefits to creating a platform that would help, rather than harm, our democratic society? Stream the conversation with experts. In collaboration with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
How can we celebrate what's good about the US and its history, while addressing the exploitation and inequality that are also part of the American legacy? Panelists discuss how to meld the good and the bad of U.S. history into shared narratives that a diverse population can broadly endorse. In collaboration with the American Academy […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed tells the sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history and provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
We are regularly exposed to the message that in a democracy, such as the United States, our voices matter. We are encouraged to vote—to participate in the electoral process—to be civically engaged. But what does that mean in a climate where so many of us express apathy and distrust in the system? In an increasingly […]
For decades in America, civic literacy, individual rights, and historical understanding have been waning. The National Archives is uniquely positioned to change this trajectory by supporting educators across the nation to help inspire students and supply them the tools and skills to be active participants in our civic life.
Join us as we commemorate both the powerful words of the Declaration of Independence and how generations have fought – and continue to fight – to make these ideas real. Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Jon Meacham reflect on our country’s founding principles, and the role Thomas Jefferson envisioned citizens playing in moving the […]