History Resources

Using Works of Art in Teaching American History

Essay

Daniel Walker Howe

Art, World History

What’s That Sound? Teaching the 1960s through Popular Music

Essay

Brian Ward

Art

Stacy Schiff - "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams"

Government and Civics

Inside the Vault: “Pathological liar”: Harry Truman and the rise of Joseph McCarthy in 1950

Video

Government and Civics

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Theresa Runstedtler - "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA"

Trumbull's Declaration, and Ours

Essay

Richard Brookhiser

Art

The Revolutionary Era West, before and after American Independence

Essay

Jessica Choppin Roney

Geography, Government and Civics, World History

The Fight for LGBT Rights after World War II

Essay

Timothy Stewart-Winter

The Disability Rights Movement in America

Essay

Jaipreet Virdi

The Proclamation, Reading, and Immediate Reception of the Declaration of Independence

Essay

John R. Vile

Government and Civics