National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Helen Keller
This online biography of Helen Keller (1880-1968 CE) gives the highlights and accomplishments of her life.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Postwar Red Scare
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the Red Scare at the end of World War I where people were fraudulently charged with being anti-American. See how thousands of names of supposed Communists were collected.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Wagner Act
Provides interesting facts and information about the 1935 Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act), a New Deal reform that guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively.
Curated OER
James Chaney. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman
Article from the day in 1964 when the bodies of three civil rights workers were found. The deaths were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan.
Curated OER
Teachers Visit the Leflore County Courthouse in Greenwood, Miss
This All Things Considered archive article for August 6, 2004 looks at the summer of 1964, when more than 1,000 civil rights workers came to Mississippi to help register black voters.