Fact Sheets

Fact-Sheet Categories

• African American History

  Fact sheets on major periods, events, institutions, leaders, and developments in African American history.

  • Civil Rights Era
  • Jim Crow Era
  • Reconstruction Era

• Biographies

  Concise reference profiles of influential historical, political, cultural, scientific, and institutional figures.

• Concepts and Terminology

  Definitions and explanations of important terms, ideas, frameworks, and specialized language.

• Constitutional Amendments

  Fact sheets explaining the origins, text, meaning, and historical effects of constitutional amendments.

• Constitutional History

  Reference materials on the development, interpretation, and application of constitutional government.

• Criminal Justice

  Fact sheets on criminal law, policing, courts, corrections, and related justice institutions.

• Culture

  Reference summaries of cultural practices, traditions, expressions, communities, and social patterns.

• Economic Systems

  Explanations of economic models, institutions, theories, practices, and systems of production and distribution.

• Geography

  Fact sheets on places, regions, landscapes, populations, borders, and geographic relationships.

• Government Programs

  Summaries of public programs, agencies, initiatives, objectives, and historical outcomes.

• Historical Events

  Concise accounts of significant events, turning points, conflicts, movements, and institutional changes.

• Ideologies

  Explanations of political, social, economic, religious, and philosophical systems of thought.

• Institutions

  Reference profiles of governmental, educational, religious, economic, legal, and civic institutions.

• International Agreements

  Fact sheets on treaties, conventions, accords, alliances, and other formal international agreements.

• Labor History

  Reference materials on workers, unions, labor movements, employment systems, and workplace policy.

• Laws and Legislation

  Summaries of statutes, legislative acts, legal provisions, and their historical significance.

• Legal Cases

  Concise explanations of important court cases, rulings, constitutional questions, and legal precedents.

• Military Conflicts

  Fact sheets on wars, battles, campaigns, military operations, causes, participants, and consequences.

  • U.S. Civil War

• Organizations

  Profiles of civic, political, religious, cultural, commercial, and other organized groups.

• Political Movements

  Reference summaries of political movements, campaigns, organizing efforts, and collective demands.

• Political Parties

  Fact sheets on political parties, their platforms, structures, histories, and electoral roles.

• Religion

  Reference materials on religions, denominations, traditions, doctrines, institutions, and religious movements.

• Science

  Concise explanations of scientific fields, discoveries, theories, methods, and important contributors.

• Social Movements

  Fact sheets on organized efforts seeking social, cultural, legal, or institutional change.

• Technology

  Reference summaries of technologies, inventions, systems, industries, and technological developments.