If a picture's worth a 1,000 words how much is a postcard worth?

"Look Grandma,
I put on my Sunday best and went to the lynching.
Wish you were here!"

We have all seen awful photos of lynchings, but this site sheds light on an even more despicable practice, the turning of those photos into postcards.

Really helps to show the role of lynchings in terrorizing and how flagrant and widespread the practice was. Especially helpful is that the example come from everywhere from California in the 1930s to the Deep South of the 1890s. Most are explained in depth.

I got problems

Problem based learning at it's finest. The Buck Institute puts together some good stuff. They have a great page of links, including a link to the University of Delaware PBL Clearinghouse. In addition, they have their own down loadable units that include everything from background material, student handouts, and rubrics.

The economics units provides a variety of units.

The well done government units include projects that explain the Supreme Court, Campaigns, interest groups, and other relevant topics.

Voting Rights and Wrongs

African Americans, 15th amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Women, 19th amendment. But when did Native Americans get the right to vote?

The ACLU has a detailed timeline of voting rights expansion.

The Cornhuskers are coming through with this Native American specific site.