Online Materials

LGBTQ+

• GLBT Historical Society especially their Online Resources which includes archives, exhibits, research guides, and primary source sets.
• GLSEN’s LGBTQ History resources including Making Gay History podcast.
• Lesbian Herstory Archives including the Digital Archives and Herstories oral history videos
• Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement from PBS
• ONE Archives in LA and One’s Lesson Plans or learn more about the archives now housed at USC
• Pride 1983 online exhibit from Pride Center of Vermont and Vermont Folklife
• Queer America: Podcast for students and educators from SPLC’s Learning for Justice
• Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: LGBTQ History
  • Blog Posts
  • Collections
  • Virtual Exhibits
• Teaching LGBTQ History: Instructional Resources for California Educators and Families

Chinese & Asian American Experience

• The Asian American Education Project: Lesson plans resource
• Chinese Historical Society of America
  • Virtual Exhibits
  • Teacher Resources
• Library of Congress, Immigration and Relocation in US History: Chinese
• Museum of Chinese in America
  • Collection Highlights
  • New Acquisitions
  • Oral Histories
  • Collection of Women’s Writings
  • Search the Museum’s PastPerfect database
• PBS’s American Asian Series and Teaching Resources
• Smithsonian’s Asian Pacific American Center
  • Learning Together is for educators and students who seek ways to include Asian American and Pacific Islander narratives in their classrooms.

Book Bans and Challenges

• American Library Association Banned & Challenged Books website
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Banned Comics website
• PEN America Book Bans website

Science

• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Virtual Tour
  • Archive’s The Women of JPL and The Women of JPL pdf
  • Rocket Building Activities
• The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology