Cocori
Cocori Complete Costa Rica: Torch of Freedom
This page is part of the Web of Cocori: Complete Costa Rica. The article tells of Juan Santamaria,a national hero of the country. It includes an interesting photo, also.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Gerald Ford
The National Portrait Gallery presents a look at presidential actions during the Cold War. Click on Gerald Ford to watch a video of a speech he made concerning the Helsinki Accords and the need to honor fundamental freedoms and human...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Living the Revolution: America, 1789 1820
Over thirty primary sources explore the American Revolution covering the topics of early republican life, religion, politics, expansion, and equality. Includes notes and discussion questions.
United Nations
United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This is a site containing the original text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written over fifty years ago.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Explores the argument made by Frederick Douglass and his appeals to convince northern whites to oppose slavery and favor abolition. Lesson content includes resources for both teachers and students.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era
Lesson where students explore the emergence of the American system of democracy and political parties between 1820 and 1850. Using paintings by George Caleb Bingham and Richard Caton Woodville, and a political cartoon depicting the...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Freedom Summer
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of college students flooded Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.
The Washington Post
Washington Post: With Protest, Nfl Player Is Exercising His Rights
The San Francisco 49ers backup QB, Colin Kaepernick, is making waves with his knee during the National Anthem.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Civil Rights Movement: 1919 1960s
Article provides an overview of the Civil Rights Movement in America between 1919 and the 1960s with detailed discussion on racial equality, nonviolence and passive resistance, and segregation.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Sierra Leone, Making of African American Identity: V. 1
An eighteenth-century map, several illustrations by Europeans of Africans from Sierra Leone, and two eighteenth-century narratives depicting Sierra Leone natives through the eyes of two British physicians who describe the peoples they...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Bight of Biafra, Making of African American Identity: V. 1
An audio clip of a Yoruba drum and two accounts by slaves or their descendants that offer African perspectives on life and culture in the Niger River Delta.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Kongo, Making of African American Identity: V. 1
Eight watercolor drawings and an accompanying narrative from an Italian Catholic missionary about the peoples in the Kingdom of Kongo (present-day Angola).
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity: Vol. Ii, 1865 1917: Migration
Congressional testimony and a letter that explore late nineteenth-century black migration from the South. Links to both resources are provided within this site.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: How Slavery Affected African American Families
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Heather Andrea Williams discusses the lives of enslaved African American families and how slavery made their lives different from other families.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Slave Resistance
Essay explores the beginnings of slave resistance and its various forms. Includes ideas for guiding a student discussion.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The Demise of Slavery
In this essay, J. William Harris, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, explains the developments that brought about the demise of slavery.