Interactive Immigration Map

This map from the NY Times shows you where immigrants are from, how they have come over time, what percentage of a county they make up, and their contribution to the American resturaunt scene.

Wars end remember

How wars end is a great radio series that looks in depth at what can often be the most defining aspect of war.

Wordling the Founding Documents

The Declaration of Independence

The Bill of Rights

The Constitution


Amendments 11-27

Katrina from the Journal of American History

The Journal had a special issue devoted to Katrina.

Great media section including great audio slideshows.

A page of further resources. Including a guide of neighborhoods, jazz music, timeline of levee construction and more.

War Making

A lesson that tackles the subject of who gets to decide when we tell people "Bring it on."

Ye, Olde Constitution Center

It's the Constitution Center and it's mostly about the Constitution and related items. Like Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Minus the beyond.

Really, America.gov?

So I feel a little odd about this one, but it's a 2-3 page explanation about the American Government. It's so concise, I'm surprised a government agency put it together.

Katrina

When I started considering using Katrina as a case study for my government class I wasn't sure if it was too obvious. Then I had students ask who's Katrina.

The NY Times has a whole teaching site about it that incorporates a lot of the paper's multimedia.

Teachers College has taken Spike Lee's documentary under their wings.

Here you can get a 100 pdf helping you use When the Levees Broke to teach students about Katrina, Democratic Dialouge, and Civic Engagement

Jim Crow

This is where to start if you want to cover this subject.

American Radio Works also has a great story about the subject.

Don't forget my lynchings postcard post, too.

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.

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.