[Free Registration/Login Required] Johnathan Halloway presents a long lecture covering civil rights from the 1920's and 1930's in the United States. Within this presentation, Halloway identifies the historical events and the national climate leading up to and during the era featured. [2:13:47]

[Free Registration/Login Required] A result of detailed study, scholar Lewis E. Lehrman speaks of what the nation can learn from the model of Abraham Lincoln. He presents an overview of Lincoln's life and the magnitude of his speeches both prior to his election and during his role as the President of the United States. [28:46]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Matthew Pinsker, of Dickinson College, delivers a lecture the Men of Company E, the 4th United States Colored Infantry. Pinsker draws on the individuality of those involved in the Civil War of the United States. [3:38]

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan that teaches about nonviolence and uses the civil rights lunch counter protests as examples.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Historian Norman Saul addresses a crowd discussing why Russia was interested and supportive of the Civil War in America. Russia was also facing unrest over serfdom similar to the conflict over slavery in the United States. Understand more abou this reslationship in this presentation. [25:01]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan asking this essential question: "What conditions created a need for a protest march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 and what did that march achieve?"

[Free Registration/Login Required] Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands is delivered by James F. Brooks, associated with the School for Advanced Research. The lecture explores American Indian history and economics in association with the new settlers of the southwestern United States during the second half of the 1800's. [32:53]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Richard White describes the transformation the American West makes during the two decades in the twentieth century being one of the most critical times in U.S. history. [1:53]

[Free Registration/Login Required] The Emergence of the Frontier, the Expansion of Railroads, and Mining is a round table discussion of groups who have reviewed documents, letters, etc. from movement west to either mine or acquire land, the impact of the railroad development and the urgency for folks to mine for gold. With all of the competition heading west understand the corruption that arises in business. [52:32]

[Free Registration/Login Required] An interview conducted with Pulitzer Prize winner, Gordon S. Wood, author of "The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States" about the book. What does it mean to be American? Wood discusses his discoveries and historical understanding of why the American Revolution was most significant event in American history. [36:18]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Stanford University professor Clayborne Carson shares his experience at the March on Washington, his first trip to the national capital in August, 1963. Carson takes viewers on a virtual tour of the march adding a personal touch of his own familiarity of the event. [15:01]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this lesson plan to explore the roles of women in the 1950s. After working men's jobs during World War II, women went back into the home when the men returned. Examine how well this worked out.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Alan Brinkley addresses the ways the New Deal development drew on experiences in other nations, particularly in the blurred areas between fascism, liberal democracy, and communism. [01:13:06]

[Free Registration/Login Required] Tour the online original documents that tell a story about the abolition of slavery in both the United States and England. Click on the tiny "next" above the text to go through the interactive.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Speaker Carol Berkin, of both Baruch College and the City University of New York, discusses her research on the critical roles women played in the American Revolution. [2:31]

[Free Registration/Login Required] After reading the background information about Attorney General Robert Kennedy's report on civil rights enforcement activities of the Department of Justice in 1962, read the full transcript of the report itself.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Read about the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, charged and convicted of murder. See why this case was a divisive one and read the broadside, published by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, which raised questions about their guilt.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lengthy essay discussing the differing opinions about immigration and the role of immigrants in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Find out about the immigrants who made massive industrialization possible, read about the laws Congress passed in regard to who was welcome and who was not, and learn about the immigrant role in urban America.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive look at court cases that deal with the rights of immigrants between 1876 and 1901.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Yale University's David Brion Davis presents a lecture focused on how slavery came to be in the early development of the New World and goes on to cover how it falls apart. [49:48]