History Resources

The Civil War in American Memory

Video

Government and Civics, Literature

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity

Video

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Historians Now: Lincoln’s Selected Writings edited by David S. Reynolds

Video

Government and Civics, Literature

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

From The Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Literature

Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Economics, World History

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

“The war ruined me”: The aftermath of the Civil War in the South, 1867

Spotlight on: Primary Source

The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century

Essay

T. J. Stiles

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

"Men of Color: To Arms! To Arms!"

Lesson Plan

5, 6, 7, 8

Frederick Douglass on Jim Crow, 1887

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Government and Civics

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

From The Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin