Anoka HS Social Studies

Library of Congress primary sources, primarily images, arranged in 10 chapters: slavery-civil rights.

This is a frame by frame look at the maps in the Chicago Racial Segregation .gif.  Information in the maps from the Chicago Area Geographic Information Study

Chicago Racial Demographics changing over time.  This animated .gif shows the growth and expansion of Chicago's segregated black ghettoes on the south and west sides.  Very dramatic. Uses census data, 1910-200

Audio of Langston Hughes reading his short poem, published in 1951

Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.

Movie footage from 1906

Study of racial segregation using 2010 census data.  Rust belt cities dominate, Milwaukee is #1

Article comparing Latin American Revolutions with the American Revolutions.  Notes some interesting connections.

Article written by a prominent historian of the French Caribbean that trace the connections between the Haitian, American, and French Revolutions.  Interesting and clearly written.

Examples of Propaganda from WW1. Lots of posters.

"Teaching African American Civil Rights Through American Art at the Smithsonian"  Specific works by African American artists are showcased with notes, discussion questions, and connections.

British Library exhibit on Mughal India with several primary source images.

Primary sources, maps, and more!

The new SHEG US History site.  Requires free registration.  71 lessons

Lesson plans in which students Think Like Historians

Searchable database of lots of maps spanning hundreds of years.

Shows US ethnic distribution by county.  Data from the 2010 census