Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)

Source: HISTORY

Learn about the holiday’s origins and how it is celebrated.

Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved?

Source: TED

Watch this video to learn why so many ships are found in the depths of the Black Sea.

Fortnite’s Civil Rights Movement Inclusion Was Well-Intentioned But Messy

Source: IGN

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.

Cesar Chavez

Source: History

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.

The Netherlands unveils its first national Holocaust monument

Source: CNN

Discover the impact and significance of the Netherlands’ first national Holocaust monument.

Labor Wars in the U.S.

Source: PBS

This detailed timeline describes several key conflicts in the historic struggle between prosperous industrialists and the workers whose labor drove their profits.

5 Real-Life Examples of Fairy Tales Coming True

Source: Live Science

Turns out some of the afflictions in well-known fairy tales can be scientifically explained.

In 1865, thousands of Black South Carolinians signed a 54-foot-long freedom petition

Source: Washington Post

Read about some of the objects on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

America’s First Immigration Center Was Also an Amusement Park

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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.

Extreme Dining in the Gilded Age

Source: National Women's History Museum

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.