Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
This 19-hour series explores the evolution of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the men and women who could do something remarkable: create art
June 7, 2024
This 19-hour series explores the evolution of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the men and women who could do something remarkable: create art
This two-part, 3.5-hour film tells the story of the first Black boxer to win the most coveted title in sports, “Heavyweight Champion of the World,”
This two-part, four-hour film, tells the story of a U.S. icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcended even his
In 1970, the Atlanta Housing Authority opened a public housing community called East Lake Meadows. Before Atlanta bulldozed the housing project in the mid-1990s to
This 90-minute film tells the story of a school in Vermont where each year students are encouraged to practice, memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address.
The Civil War is a nine-part series that explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history. It saw the end of slavery and was
Any work is potentially open to attack by someone, somewhere, sometime, for some reason. This lesson introduces students to censorship and how challenges to books
Structured as game questions, this activity challenges students to identify cities, states and geographical features whose names tell the story of the Indigenous, Spanish and
Explore the early days of the United Farm Workers of America under the guidance of César Chavez and Dolores Huerta. See the conditions that led
In this lesson plan drawing on material from Latino Americans, students learn about how regions, such as Texas, New Mexico and California, had established Mexican