Our EDCollections
Explore important topics in-depth using primary sources, artifacts from the Newseum’s collection and interactive learning tools.
Each EDCollection brings together rare archival materials, primary sources, interactives and standards-aligned lesson plans to provide an immersive learning experience. Dive in to encounter fresh perspectives on history and engage with today’s most pressing issues and debates. Find out how you can sponsor a new EDCollection.
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Our EDCollections
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Fact Finder: Your Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy
Bring the road-tested tools of journalism from the newsroom to your own news feed. Create a complete course of material on today’s media literacy essentials or sharpen a specific skill, from finding quality news to reporting it. Made possible by The Brin Wojcicki Foundation and Present Progressive Fund at Schwab Charitable.
Free Speech Essentials for Students
Critical debates reveal the foundations, flare-ups and frontiers of this First Amendment freedom. Use 16 provocative case studies to explore historical and contemporary debates on a key expression issue, from federalism and Facebook, to censorship and cyberbullying. Made possible by the Charles Koch Foundation.
Decoding Elections: Process, Persuasion & Participation
Stumped by the media mayhem and roaring rhetoric of political campaigns? Get historical context and tools to demystify election procedures, decode campaign messages and make your voice matter. Eleven case studies help students excavate the meaty issues from the political mud and prepare them to answer: Is there a better way? Made available in partnership with American Association of University Women.
Media Literacy Booster Pack
Staying fresh and fluent in today’s media landscape isn’t easy. This collection of resources offers tools to tackle eight pressing challenges, from recognizing bias and propaganda to leveraging your role as a media contributor. Made available in partnership with American Association of University Women.
Freedom in the Balance
The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, forced us to reconsider the balance between protecting public safety and protecting First Amendment freedoms – our cornerstone rights of religious liberty, free expression and political action. Twenty-two case studies explore how this debate has evolved from friction among Founding Fathers to cybersecurity standoffs. Made possible by the For Action Initiative.
Making a Change: The First Amendment and the Civil Rights Movement
See how advocates for — and against — change in the civil rights era leveraged the five freedoms of the First Amendment to make their voices heard. Endorsed by the National Council for the Social Studies.
Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less
From early national conferences to the founding of publications dedicated to women’s rights, suffragists embraced the First Amendment and pioneered dramatic new forms of protest. Discover how social movements throughout history and today have built on this legacy. Interactive features include a timeline with nearly 300 front pages, photographs and objects from the suffrage movement and a map of pro- and anti-suffrage artifacts from across the country. Made available in partnership with American Association of University Women.
