Humanities: Resources for Learning

America in Class (National Humanities Center)
PRIMARY SOURCE ARCHIVES: American Beginnings: The European Presence in North America, 1492-1690. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763. Making the Revolution: America, 1763-1791. Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820. The Triumph of Nationalism / The House Dividing: America, 1815-1850. The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912. Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s. The Making of African American Identity. Volume I, 1500-1865. Volume II, 1865-1917. Volume III, 1917-1968.

America in Class: Lessons (National Humanities Center)
"42 lessons. Can browse by time period: 1491-1607. 1607-1754. 1754-1800. 1800-1848. 1844-1898. 1890-1945. 1945-present."

Created Equal
"Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle brings four outstanding films on the long civil rights movement to communities across the United States. As part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)’s Bridging Cultures initiative, Created Equal will encourage communities across the country to revisit the history of civil rights in America and to reflect on the ideals of freedom and equality that have helped bridge deep racial and cultural divides in our civic life. Four outstanding documentary films, spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1960s, are the centerpiece for this project. Each of these films was supported by NEH, and each tells remarkable stories of individuals who challenged the social and legal status quo of deeply rooted institutions, from slavery to segregation."

EDSITEment!: The Best of the Humanities on the Web
"EDSITEment is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture."

Humanities Commons
"Humanities Commons is a nonprofit network that enables humanities scholars and practitioners to create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work. The Humanities Commons network is open to anyone, regardless of field, language, institutional affiliation, or form of employment. Full-featured accounts are and will remain free for individual users; the network is sustained by the financial contributions of participating organizations."

Humanities in Action
"Humanities in Action is a project of the National Humanities Center, created to highlight important issues involving humanities research and teaching and offer humanities perspectives on important public topics."

Humanities in American Life: Insights from a 2019 Survey of the Public’s Attitudes & Engagement
"In fall 2019 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered the first nationally representative survey dedicated to understanding Americans’ engagement with and attitudes toward the humanities. The survey asked 5,015 American adults, age 18 and above (in a sample drawn from NORC at the University of Chicago’s AmeriSpeak panel) about their engagement in a variety of humanistic activities, as well as their beliefs about the personal, societal, and economic benefits of the humanities."

Humanities in Class Digital Library
Requires free registration. Limit searches by Subject or Education Level. SUBJECT: Applied Science. Arts and Humanities. Business and Communication. Career and Technical Education. Education. English Language Arts. History. Law. Life Science. Mathematics. Physical Science. Social Science. EDUCATION LEVEL: Lower Primary. Upper Primary. Middle School. High School. Community College / Lower Division. College / Upper Division. Career / Technical. Graduate. Professional. Advanced Search screen provides additional limiters: Material Type, Member Activity, Rubic Evaluated, Content Source, Primary User, Media Format, Accessibility, License Types.

Humanities in Class: A Guide to Thinking and Learning in the Humanities
"Humanities in Class: A Guide to Thinking and Learning in the Humanities is a compilation of guides in ten different humanities disciplines that identify the key qualities and practices of those disciplines, considering: What questions are asked? What tools and resources are invaluable? What processes occur? Created to be accessible and flexible and to meet the needs of educators and classrooms at all levels, the guide features media and digital content that helps clarify and establish fluency for each discipline. Designed to reflect the emerging directions of humanities scholarship and the curricular needs of humanities education, this guide features work in ten fields of study, including: art history, classics, environmental humanities, geography, humanties adn science integrative studies, literature studies, musicology, philosophy and ethics, political theory and civics, and U.S. and global history."

Humanities Moments
"The Humanities Moments project was created by the National Humanities Center in partnership with the Federation of State Humanities Councils in an effort to gather, store, and share personal accounts of how the humanities illuminate our lives. By illustrating the importance of the humanities for people from all walks of life, the project seeks to reimagine the way we think and talk about the humanities. By highlighting their transformative power, the Humanities Moments project illuminates how our encounters with the humanities fuel the process of discovery, encourage us to think and feel more deeply, and provide the means to solve problems as individuals and as a society."

The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
"The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, established by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1972, is the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."

National Arts and Humanities Month
"October is National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM)—a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America. NAHM was launched by Americans for the Arts more than 30 years ago as National Arts Week in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1993, it was reestablished by Americans for the Arts and national arts partners as a month-long celebration..."

National Humanities Center: NHC Education Resources
ONLINE RESOURCES: Humanities in Class Digital Library. America in Class Lessons. Primary Source Archives. TeacherServe. Webinar Recordings. DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS. PODCASTS.

National Humanities Medal
"The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities and broadened our citizens' engagement with history, literature, languages, philosophy, and other humanities subjects. Up to 12 medals can be awarded each year."

National Inventory of Humanities Organizations
"The National Inventory of Humanities Organizations uses the conceptualization of the humanities developed by the Humanities Indicators (HI), which is based on the definition of the field included in the founding legislation of the National Endowment for the Humanities. NIHO encompasses not-for-profit, for-profit, and government institutions engaged in humanities scholarship and/or in bringing humanities knowledge or skills to various audiences."

National Medal of Arts
"The National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. The National Medal of Arts is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals or groups who '...are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States.'"

Open Humanities Press
"OHP is an international community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and cultural theory. We have operated as a independent volunteer initiative since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication.OHP’s organization is a community interest company headquarted in London. Its Directors are Gary Hall, Sigi Jöttkandt and David Ottina. The OHP Editorial Board is at the heart of all our activities: participating in journal assessments, reviewing and approving book series proposals, performing and managing peer review, and editing the OHP book series. We act on the principles of access, scholarship, diversity and transparency. We have partnered with a number of groups and institutions to explore grass-roots solutions to the crisis in Humanities publishing. You can find readings and podcasts about our Radical OA philosophy, and more information about open access."

Ransom Center Magazine
"Read. Discover. Learn. Explore stories inspired by the collections of writers and artists held at the Ransom Center, one of the leading humanities research libraries in the world."