History Resources

"Show Them What an Indian Can Do": The Example of Jim Thorpe

Essay

Joseph Bruchac

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Inside the Vault: Primary Sources about Enslaved People

Video

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

Indigenous Americans in World War II: The Navajo Code Talkers

Essay

Laura Tohe

"Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968"

Video

Inside the Vault: The Lives and Works of Phillis Wheatley and Elizabeth Keckley

Video

Literature

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

Yellow Fever 1793

Essay

Richard Brookhiser

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

The Influenza of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020: Some Parallels and Differences

Essay

John M. Barry

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Invisible Threats and the Politics of Disaster: Three Mile Island and Covid-19

Essay

Natasha Zaretsky

Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters