Civil War battlefields are coming alive once more through a new NEH-funded project that connects middle school students to the American Civil War by training them to use primary source documents, humanities scholarship, role-playing, and digital technology to create short movies.
Please join the National Endowment for the Humanities on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, for a presentation by Morris J. Vogel, President of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
On Valentine’s Day HBO aired The Loving Story, a 90-minute documentary film about Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who married in Virginia in the late 1950s.