Photographs of Holocaust survivor Sonia Weitz and her life before, during, and after the Holocaust.
This is an audio recording of President Lincoln's second inaugural address (March 4, 1865).
Using the Stick Figure strategy, a student has created a representation of Dill from To Kill a Mockingbird composed of quotes from novel.
A bio-poem highlights biographical information about a subject, including their experiences, relationships, hopes, and interests.
In this segment of an interview conducted by Studs Terkel, Eileen Barthe, a government relief case worker during the Great Depression, remembers an experience that caused a recipient of relief to face deep humiliation.
Studs Terkel interviews Emma Tiller, a cook who describes how African Americans would feed people who were in need during the Great Depression, without any regard to their skin color.
In an interview with Studs Terkel, Virginia Foster Durr, a prominent American civil rights activist, reflects on life during the Great Depression, particularly the way that people on government relief felt shame and guilt over their own suffering and poverty, rather than blaming the capitalist system.
View family photos of Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber and see examples of her artwork.
These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.
View a series of maps highlighting changes to the Ottoman Empire in green.