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.

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.

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.