Black History in Two Minutes presents a 2-minute video on Robert Smalls and his naval escape from slavery. Harvard Professor,…
DocsTeach presents a lesson plan, written by the National Archives Education Team, that aims to engage students in the evaluation…
Note: Original source, date and author unknown. Source states the biography was created and published between May 13, 1862 -…
The New York Public Library features a bulleted, biographical profile on Robert Smalls- a formerly enslaved man who later became a…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a historical illustration, drawn by Lucius Stebbins, that depicts a…
PBS provides a video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross series, which explains the origins of the phrase “Forty…
PBS presents a modern article, written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., titled, "The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule,'" which examines…
The National Archives features a historical photograph of a group of male "contrabands" - formerly enslaved people who escaped to…
The New York Public Library features a historical photo that shows two African American men in front of the Putnam House in…
YouTube presents a 2019 video, produced by PragerU, that provides a short summary of how President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction…
Note: 1st column, center.Chronicling America features an 1866 Lewistown Gazette newspaper article, written by an unknown author,…
Note: 4th column, center.Chronicling America features an 1868 Placer Herald newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that…
The New York Public Library features an 1865 historical report, issued by General Rufus Saxton, that provides the rules outlined…
Note: 7th column, top.Chronicling America features an 1866 Green-Mountain Freeman newspaper article, written by an unknown…
The Library of Congress presents am 1864 historical illustration depicting enslaved people escaping slavery. The inscription on…
YouTube presents a 2020 video, produced by NBS News Learn, that provides a brief historical overview of the Freedmen's…