History Resources

Inside the Vault: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Voting Rights

Video

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Voting Rights and Restrictions in Pre-Emancipation America

Essay

Keri Leigh Merritt

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Pioneering New Methods to Expand Voting, 1865–1920

Essay

Lisa Tetrault

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Jeremi Suri - "Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy"

Video

Geography, Government and Civics

Derek LeeBaert - "Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made"

Video

Geography, Government and Civics, World History

The Battle to Expand Access to the Ballot from 1920 to 2000

Essay

Michael J. Pitts

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

James Reese Europe

Clayton Butler - "True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction"

Video

Geography, Government and Civics

"You Drop A Petal in the Water, and It Has a Ripple Effect": The Disability Rights Movement, 1950-1990

Lesson Plan

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The Resignation Speech of Richard M. Nixon

Lesson Plan

Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12