Three minute video, animated. Details the lynching of a Black Spanish American War veteran and connects this to the broader story of lynching as a tool of White Supremacy
In May of 1863, the Confederate Congress passed a joint resolution that formalized Davis's proclamation that black soldiers taken prisoner would not be subject to the prisoner exchange.
On July 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued General Orders 252, which effectively suspended the Dix-Hill Cartel until the Confederate forces agreed to treat black prisoners the same as white prisoners.
Article from the National Park Service on the political dispute that ended prisoner exchanges during the Civil War. The end of these exchanges led to large, dangerous POW camps. Political dispute was about the Confederate refusal to return black POWs.
Less travel and more contemporary Iran than Rick Steves, the only copy I could find of this on Youtube has a distracting fake "theater" around the screen. I plan to show it nevertheless.
A History Day project which earned Honorable Mention at the state level in Massachusetts, this 10-minute documentary does a nice job of summarizing the effects of "glasnost" and "perestroika" as well as tracing nationalism and ethnic conflict and how all these things led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
During World War One, more than a million women went to work in factories, mines, laboratories and offices across the country. So what was it like? Conditions were often poor, the work arduous and they were often paid as little as half the wages of their male counterparts. And, despite their contributions, the 1919 Restoration…