This Open Educational Resource (OER) features original documents and teaching materials from unpublished and unfamiliar legal cases, stories, and histories that have legacies in the U.S. today. Our aim is to help teachers, students, researchers, communities, and descendants piece together how law shaped U.S. history and the course of race, equality, freedom, and unfreedom from the colonial period to the present. Freely available for teaching and learning, the OER foregrounds the actions of ordinary Americans in the law.
