Tools for exploring slavery, Reconstruction, and the long arc of civil rights in America — drawn from UW–Madison, MIT OCW, and H-Net H-Urban curricula.
Explore the Reconstruction amendments: what each said, what freedpeople expected, how Reconstruction was dismantled, and the long aftermath through Jim Crow and the civil rights era.
Pick a city of origin and trace the Great Migration routes — what pushed people out of the South, what drew them to Chicago or Detroit or Los Angeles, and what they found when they arrived.
Year-by-year explorer of the civil rights movement — key events, the organizations involved, government responses, and the local and national tensions that shaped each moment.
Pick an era and trace how racial hierarchy was encoded into economic structures — labor control, property law, credit markets, and the political economy of each period.
Explore Black feminist thought through Crenshaw, Collins, and hooks — what intersectionality means, how the matrix of domination works, and what the politics of respectability produced historically.
