A video designed to introduce American Lit. and spark interest in students.

Quotes from Thomas Jefferson that we as Americans would be wise to heed!

A wonderful montage of American Civil War photographs (some are graphic) set to period music. Perfect for a writing prompt.

Ken Burns documentary on the events of the American Civil War.

Paul Revere Message of Revolution. Short bio on Paul Revere

Schoolhouse Rock - The Shot Heard Round the World. The start of the American Revolution!

Dating back to the 1880s, Boston Chinatown is one of the oldest continuous residential Chinatown communities in the U.S., a little known fact not adequately celebrated in Boston's history. This piece covers the arrival of the first Chinese immigrants in New England, brought in to break a strike...

Passed in 1882 and in effect until 1943, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first U.S. law to ban immigration by race or nationality. Using images from actual Chinese Exclusion Act case files, this poignant piece discusses its ramifications and how U.S. Chinatown developed in response to racial...

Traced back to Southern China and the clannish nature of Chinese culture, family associations play a unique role in U.S. Chinatowns. During the Chinese Exclusion Act and in times of extreme discrimination, family associations were not simply a social haven. They provided work and housing...

The area Chinatown occupies has always been an immigrant, working-class community, driven by the proximity of labor and transportation. Originally an Irish community, it later became a predominantly Syrian-Lebanese community that was also home to Jewish and West-African-Barbadian immigrants....