The American Yawp constructs a coherent and accessible narrative from all the best of recent historical scholarship. Without losing sight of politics and power, it incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. Whitman’s America, like ours, cut across the narrow boundaries that strangle many narratives. Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past.

Unlike European option, an American options can be exercised at any point before it expires. In this video we walk through the process of exercising an American call option. Created by Sal Khan.

Unlike European option, an American options can be exercised at any point before it expires. In this video we walk through the process of exercising an American put option. Created by Sal Khan.

This is a resource to teach high school through college level students about the Americans with Disabilities Act. 

This video production is a part of a four-panel report from the National Academies' America's Climate Choices project. The video maps out the realm of our accumulated knowledge regarding climate change and charts a path forward, urging that research on climate change enter a new era focused on the needs of decision makers.

A video that discusses the perspectives and insights necessary to report out about climate change. The video can be used to demonstrate how different perspectives impact different stakeholders and different levels, and that there is a need to have a clear, coordinated national response.

This video from the U.S. National Academies summarizes the energy challenges the United States faces, including the technological challenges, and the need for changes in consumption and in energy policy.

On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. Kathryn D. "Kathy" Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger,

Poster showing text only. Title continues: We have promised to feed the hungry millions of Europe-the Allies and liberated nations. Save food, two-thirds more than last year from stocks no larger. United States Food Administration.

Have you ever stopped to think about the incredible risks the Founding Founders took when they rebelled against British authority? They were starting a war with the greatest military power of the time even though they did not have a mighty fighting force themselves. And they were fighting for a type of government that most people thought was impossible. In this video mini-course, Professor Sarah Burns of the Rochester Institute of Technology explains the historical and philosophical context of the American Revolution from the changing role of the British army in the colonies to Radical Whig theory.

Poster showing a stern Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Title continues: As a consumer you are a shareholder in the industrial system of the United States. Every dollar spent for anything you need goes into the General Stock Company of American Industry and pays back in dividends of wages and profits. Do your bit for Democracy by co-operating with the business men of your community. It will keep production costs down and save you money by doing away with industrial war. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. E-4.

Red Cross nurse with wounded and needy people, including a soldier and a mother holding a child, all gesturing toward the quote from Whittier. United States Food Administration.

Red Cross nurse with wounded and needy people, including a soldier and a mother holding a child, all gesturing toward the quote from Whittier. United States Food Administration.