History Resources

Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution

Essay

Eric Foner

Government and Civics

The Bondwoman’s Narrative

Video

Literature

Criticisms of the Emancipation Proclamation

Video

Government and Civics

Historians Now: The Radical and the Republican by James Oakes

Video

Government and Civics

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Slave Tags: Document in a Minute

Video

The New Nation, 1783–1815

Essay

Alan Taylor

Government and Civics

The History of Race Relations in America: African American Experiences, 1492-1877

Video

"All Should Have an Equal Chance": Abraham Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence

Essay

Jonathan W. White

Slave revolt in the West Indies, 1733

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Economics, Geography, World History

A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Essay

James Oliver Horton

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+