More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for their country in the Civil War (1861-1865); more than any other war in our history. Although the North prevailed over the South, the grief and bitterness caused by the violence healed very slowly. Learn mor
Africans in America is a PBS multi-part history of slavery in America, and is my pick of the day.
The History Place presents the Civil War as an illustrated time line from Lincoln's election (November 6, 1860) to the ratification of the thirteenth amendment and the official end to American slavery (December 6, 1865.
Get face-to-face with Rosa Parks in my pick-of-the-day site from the Academy of Achievement. The biography and photo gallery are both excellent.
"Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley." In 1987, Parks established The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute to carry on her work encouraging youth to
The PBS special Eyes on the Prize The Story of the Movement covers the civil rights movement by focusing on twenty six events.
The Rosa Parks section includes a Parks interview and in-depth coverage of the bus boycott and the subsequent 1956 Supreme Court ruling.
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