Social Studies, Human Resources and Adptations

Concerned about the instability of our national food economy and large percentage of the Native population suffering from diabetes one of the objectives of WELRP is to promote the use of land for growing healthy foods while maintaining tradition and strengthening culture.

How Green Was My Valley is a story about a Welch coal mining family told through the eyes of the youngest boy.

It was a pretty interesting story. Somewhat similar to our story Out of This Furnace. It was a little slow but thats kinda how old movies are. I don't think you could make a movie exciting about living in a coal mining family.

The Town That Was is a documentary film of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a once thriving mining town until 1962 when the ming caught fire and continued burning until the mid 1980s.

I thought this was a great documentary. They talk about the governments lack of help with the town's mine fire. Instead of the fire being put out soon, it lasted for many, many years destroying the town in the meantime.

A how-to on Diigo...

WIM was founded in 1972 in Denver, Colorado, by several women whose intent was to facilitate education about the mining industry.

This is a YouTube video of what it looks like in the mines and what the miners actually do. It shows the equipment used and how they move the equipment form place to place.

This clip can get long and boring to watch, but I think it's interesting what the inside of mines look like and what the miners actually do. I'm wondering the hearing lose that must occur for the workers?

Hearing loss in mines is on the rise, but workers have different protection for different levels

I thought it was interesting to know what how much hearing is lost because of working in the mines. Still looking for better statistics.

Has anyone heard of this website?

A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.

I don't know if this is an appropriate video or not, but one of my friends mentioned it at Bunco last night so I thought I would share it.

Easy to understand!

Diigo explained

Online history resources

This National Repository for Online Courses segment from a US History course covers: Gilded age Scandal and Corruption; Consumer Culture; Rise of Unions. This seems like a great resource to add to your Diigo!

Four lessons on US foreign relations between 1915-1941 with East Asia

Wow, this site has beautiful content.

Perspectives on the Middle East.

Textbook chapters online of US history.

Possible useful web tool for building vocabulary.

Conservative economist David Brooks postulates a rationale for the slow growing economy.