In 2018, the New-York Historical Society launched a traveling exhibition, Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. Now, readers can explore the virtual version of the exhibition, which details "the struggle for Black equality after the end of slavery." Visitors may want to start by reading the instructions for touring the virtual exhibition. Next, readers can use the Menu bar to explore by topic...

While there are numerous civil rights oral history projects, there are few organized around the remembrances and memories of persons from a particular geographic locale. This collection of eight oral history interviews, conducted by Rebecca Nappi, was created in part by the Washington State University Library in collaboration with the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Visitors to the site can listen to...

What can legal documents reveal about about daily life and social structures throughout history? This project, a collaboration between scholars at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Indiana University, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, centers on court records from Washington, D.C. between 1800 and 1862. Court cases were pulled from the Circuit Court for the District of...