Is a popular video game an appropriate venue for teaching young people about the Civil Rights movement? Click here to find out what happened when Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech was featured in Fortnite.
| Read about how Mexican-American Cesar Chavez forever changed the history of American Labor rights. He succeeded in bettering the lives of farm workers nationwide through his nonviolent efforts. |
| Discover the impact and significance of the Netherlands’ first national Holocaust monument. |
This detailed timeline describes several key conflicts in the historic struggle between prosperous industrialists and the workers whose labor drove their profits.
Turns out some of the afflictions in well-known fairy tales can be scientifically explained.
Read about some of the objects on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
| Castle Garden, originally a Revolutionary Era fort, was repurposed into an amusement park for fashionable New Yorkers in the late 1800s. Then it became the nation’s first immigrant welcome center. Read this short feature to discover how. |
| Wealthy Americans of the Gilded Age often indulged in extravagance—even when hosting dinner parties. This short article features important dinner etiquette for hosts and guests, and even includes a menu. |
| Molly Pitcher and Betsy Ross are familiar names in the history of women in America’s Revolutionary Era. Read this detailed article to learn the stories of other women who supported the war effort. |
A sociologist shares the results and repercussions of an in-depth data analysis.
