Media Resources

Shatavia Elder, Vice President of Education at the Atlanta History Center (Atlanta, Georgia), offers advice on the importance of historical significance when writing about a topic, event, person, or era. The video includes materials available at the Atlanta History Center that show how researchers can evaluate historical significance across time.

Anne Petersen, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (Santa Barbara, California), addresses why multiple perspectives are important to developing a rich understanding of historical events and topics. The video includes how maps and primary documents available at the Santa Barbara Trust can be used to analyze multiple and competing perspectives in history.

This resource provides access to classroom materials available at the Helen Keller Archive Digitization Project and resources for including the Americans with Disabilities Act within discussions about civil rights in the United States. 

The NEH-funded website, Voices of Democracy (VOD), includes a wealth of resources for studying the role of women in the civil rights movement—from the early nineteenth century through the 20^th century. This resource focuses on the life and transformative political influence of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

A collection of essays and lessons created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and National History Day as part of the NEH’s special initiative to advance civic education and the study of U.S. history and culture in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

This media resource features three videos that address a series of questions about The Papers of the War Department, a collection that provides insight into a broad range of issues, events, and trends that occurred during the Early Republic. It also includes additional research questions and resources to help students delve deeper into the documents. 

More than ten-thousand Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Heart Mountain in Wyoming, from 1942-1945. This resource asks students to examine the question "why here?" through the use of videos, primary sources, and other digital materials about this historically significant site and era. 

A video interview series conducted with Sam Mihara, a Japanese American incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during WWII, that includes primary sources and other materials.

Father Columba Stewart delivered the 2019 Jefferson Lecture, titled, "Cultural Heritage Present and Future: A Benedictine Monk’s Long View."

Dr. Rita Charon delivered the 2018 Jefferson Lecture, titled, "To See the Suffering: The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs," on Monday, October 15, 2018. In her lecture, Dr. Charon meditates on the relationship between art and medicine, and the ways in which the humanities can help us to "see the complex lived experience" of people facing health problems, to understand their suffering.