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Remix America gives you the tools and raw materials you need to remix America Then with America Now. Declare your patriotism by adding a little historical flavor to the current political debate. How are you feeling? Use our remixer to create your own commentary on the current political climate. Talk back to the remixers using the button in our player. Leave comments. And check back regularly for fresh remixes.

Picturing Modern America (PMA) contains interactive exercises designed to: * Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920 * Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources * Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. Above all, we hope that you use PMA to encourage your students to actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.

"A Brief History Of Intolerance In America" is a good slideshow from TIME Magazine. It's connected to controversy around the mosque near Ground Zero.

See how we got here. Transportation transformed America. Choose from these three interconnected routes to explore how transportation shaped our lives, landscapes, culture, and communities.

American history is filled with the stories of influential innovators, whose ideas and entrepreneurial spirit gave birth to commercial milestones like the steamboat and cultural touchstones like the Barbie doll. Twelve of these individuals are profiled in They Made America, a four-part television series from the producers of American Experience.

Are the richest people in America also the most educated? Check out this and the MANY other visualizations on this site.

America's Day Of Terror from the BBC has a lot of excellent information. In fact, it might have too much for English Language Learners, so you might want to point students to particular sections of the site.

CBS has an extensive feature called The Day That Change America.

The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project is nonpartisan and takes no position on policy issues.

Awesome flash of events in America from the beginning to the present day

Companion Site to the video series and telecourse

An electronic reference desk on Latin American countries. It includes a Subject Directory for specific information pertaining to Latin America, such as its agriculture, arts, business, and government.

Contains lots of information, music, movies, as well as an interactive crossword puzzle you could complete on the ActivBoard.

4th world information, excellent virtual library including Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific. A good resource for hard to find information.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet. Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law. Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won't put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

Baseball is probably the most watched sport in America today. The way the game is played by two teams are made up of 9 players each. The pitcher will try to pitch the baseball to the hitter or batter. The pitcher is trying to strike out the batter and with three strikes the batter is out, but the batter can hit the ball. The 8 other people playing with the pitcher are the 1st baseman, 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, shortstop, left fielder, center fielder, right fielder and the catcher who catches the ball that the pitcher throws unless the batter hits the ball.

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"StoryCorps' National Teachers Initiative will collect, preserve, and share stories that celebrate the impact of great educators on all of our lives. Focusing on the heroic work of teachers in classrooms across America, the National Teacher's Initiative is a unifying project of profound importance, inclusive of all ethnicities, cultures, and ages. By focusing on the voices and stories of teachers, the National Teachers Initiative will underscore the influence of educators on our lives and our nation's future."