Tagged “american-history”
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18 Cadence
A story kit by Aaron A. Reed about one American house across the 20th century: shuffle fragments from each room and deca…
A History of Racial Injustice
The Equal Justice Initiative's calendar marking a historical event of racial injustice in America for each day of the ye…
A Night at the Garden
Marshall Curry's Oscar-nominated six-minute film made entirely of archival footage of a 1939 rally of 20,000 American Na…
American Heritage
A history magazine publishing narrative articles by trusted historians on the people, events, and ideas that shaped the…
Digital Public Library of America
An aggregator giving free access to over 50 million photographs, manuscripts, maps, and artifacts from American librarie…
Freedom on the Move
A searchable database of thousands of runaway slave advertisements from North American newspapers, each one transcribed…
GHI Washington Blogs
The blogs of the German Historical Institute in Washington, collecting scholarly posts on American, German, and transatl…
House Divided
A digital research engine on the American Civil War era from Dickinson College, linking dated events, people, places, do…
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
A searchable archive of thousands of Information Wanted ads placed by formerly enslaved people looking for family lost t…
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress digital collections, offering free access to millions of historic photographs, maps, newspapers,…
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories
An outline of the many theories surrounding Lincoln's assassination, including one-page summaries, claims that Lincoln e…
Mission US
Free interactive history games that put you in the shoes of young people during key moments in American history, with ch…
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Posted: US Expansion Through Post Offices
An animated map by Derek Watkins that shows the United States spreading west from 1700 to 1900, one newly opened post of…
Princeton & Slavery
A research project exploring Princeton University's entanglement with slavery through narrative stories, digitised prima…
Restaurant-ing Through History
A historian's blog exploring American restaurants over the centuries, from tearooms and automats to roadside diners, wit…
Southern Mosaic
An interactive retelling of John and Ruby Lomax's 1939 journey through the American South, mapping their 6,502-mile rout…
Teaching American History
A history and civics resource for K-12 teachers, college faculty, students, and the public, with primary documents, semi…
The Federalist Reader
All 85 Federalist Papers presented in a period newspaper style alongside a clean modern reading view, with brief compani…
The Food Historian
Sarah Wassberg Johnson's blog on American food history, with weekly posts that include historic recipes, photos, and ill…
The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
An essay from the White House Historical Association on Ona Judge, who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, served the…
Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell
Thomas Jefferson's 1807 letter on how a newspaper should be run, famously lamenting that nothing can now be believed whi…
Unvarnished
A virtual exhibit on the history of housing discrimination in the northern and western United States from the 1890s to t…
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