Humanities Subject Guide

Video programs from the BBC.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1924 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle brings four outstanding films on the long civil rights movement to communities across the United States.

Rebuild Xerxes’ bridge over the Hellespont or learn about Edith Wharton’s work as a World War I war correspondent. NEH’s educational website EDSITEment offers a trove of humanities-related educational resources, lesson plans, activities, and online games for teachers, parents, and students of all ages.

An introductory guide to history and art history.

From PBS. Select a Subtopic to find more Western Civilization related topics.

Explore hundreds of NEH projects that have enriched and shaped American lives.

Picturing America was an project of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that brought masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. The project concluded in 2009. However, many of the educational materials created for the program are still available for use by students, teachers, and lifelong learners.

Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. (See such pages as Cultural Studies, Sci-Tech and Culture, Cyberculture, and Technology of Writing.) VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities (which in practice has included students and instructors from the elementary school, high school, and general population sectors).

From Yale University Law School. A variety of primary documents from 4000 BCE to the modern era.

Includes Greek, Roman and Renaissance materials. From Tufts University.

From George Mason University. Browse by region or time period, or type your topic in the Search box. When viewing results of your search, the "F" icon represents primary source documents.