The activists interviewed for this project belong to a wide range of occupations, including lawyers, judges, doctors, farmers, journalists, professors, and musicians. In addition, the video recordings of their recollections cover a wide variety of topics within the civil rights movement, such as the labor movement's influence, nonviolence and self-defense, religious faith, music, and the experiences of young activists.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Exhibitions are designed to tell stories of national significance using source materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, including letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more.
The Veterans History Project of the American Folklife Center collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries worldwide.
History Net contains daily features, photo galleries, and over 5,000 articles originally published in History Net's various magazines.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and websites.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside the classroom.
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
It uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. Interactive site that saves individual progress.
The National Geographic online website and resource.
Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions, including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and groups held by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
The Digital Edition of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin serves as the text of published papers and unverified transcriptions of unpublished material.
Perseus's 19th Century American collection provides a list of historical documents, records, photographs, and other resources that can be used to study history.
The Miller Center provides information on the institution of the presidency, including in-depth reference essays, the Secret White House Tapes, presidential oral histories, and rich archival material such as rare audio and video of speeches.
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 eBooks in the public domain that are available freely online.
Project Gutenberg provides a collection of books on wars such as The American Revolutionary War, The Spanish American War, the US Civil War, the Boer War, World War I, and World War II.
September 11, 2001, Documentary Project captures the reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.
Open-access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and data.
Formerly enslaved people Tell Their Stories. The almost seven hours of recorded interviews occurred between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states.
The Wikimedia Foundation hosts Wikibooks as an open-content textbook collection spanning various reading levels and disciplines.