Educating young people about the Constitution

pictures, documents & awards

A fantastic website of American artists, writers, activists, and cultural icons. Portraits by Robert Shetterly, with quotes from the people.

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

The Best of American Folklore Films

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine which chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

This website is dedicated and to honor the Artist /Reporter Correspondents of the infamous Bohemian Brigade of the 19th century who were eye witnesses to the American Civil War.

The Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy represents the alumni of America and strives to bring awareness to the heritage of the CCC, CCC alumni, their programs and accomplishments.

There's some really great stuff here. The Hypertexts section is particularly interesting, with links to volumes by Jane Adams, Emily Dickinson, W.E.B. DuBois, and others.

We are a group of individuals, agencies, facilities and programs that organized in December 1998 to promote the identification, documentation, preservation and education of people about the New Deal visual and performing arts, literature, crafts, struc...

Site dedicated to Public Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech, The Top 100 American Political Speeches of the 20th Century, The Rhetoric of 9-11 and links to Communication Associations and Journals

The Underground Railroad in Illinois studied through photographs, drawings, maps, biographical sketches, and educational activities.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, a part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all ...

Manning Marable's official website. He is the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University. He is also a fellow Earlhamite.

Archives.gov Home Page

From the Library of Congress

Welcome to the Louisiana Folklife Program's website, where you can find a wealth of information to help you learn, teach, and plan projects about Louisiana folklife.

The Gee's Bend Quilters Collective sells the art of the internationally acclaimed artists from this Alabama community.

Maymie Clayton died recently. I read her obituary and that is how I found out about her incredible collection of African American cultural artifacts. She led an inspiring life, and I love her story and her life's work.