An American Studies class blog from Winnetka, Illinois. Perhaps we can interact with them on something.

11 animated map of the Holocaust

A magazine that contains fiction, poetry and reviews.

A good site for finding online magazine in different categories.

The New Black Magazine aims to provide insightful features and opinions on issues concerning today's Black men and women

Pan-African news and business magazine that mostly republishes content from other sites.

HipHop magazine

A magazine that focuses on reviews of art, music, film and books

A slideshow on using family history as a thread for American History.

Without question, Tom Robinson would be better off today. In fact, Tom Robinson could live a life completely unimaginable and unrecognizable to the characters in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" - the groundbreaking book, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week.  No lynchings.  No all white male juries.  No presumption of guilt based on skin color.  No state-sanctioned discrimination. Yet, Tom would realize a sad, but undeniable truth -- that racism is still alive and all too well in contemporary America.  He would know it in the economic injustice that has left a disproportionate number of African-Americans -- 25 percent -- living in poverty.   He would see it in the criminal injustice that has left a disproportionate number of African-American men - 6 times the number of white, non-Hispanic men -- living in jails and prisons.  And he would feel it in the hate-filled, racist rhetoric that still defines too much of our political discourse - rhetoric that questions the Civil Rights Act, rhetoric that questions the birthplace of our President.

Links to online magazines from around the world

In honor of J.D. Salinger, who died on January 28, 2010, at 91, we offer the following Times and Learning Network resources for teachers and students.

Blending oral history with memoir, "We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns" chronicles the sacrifices, tragedies and triumphs of that unprecedented moment in American history.

The NY Times celebrates the 50th Anniversary with lesson plans and resources.

For some insight on segregation, integration and race relations, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with a man who has experience in what kids thought back during the days of segregation, and what they think today. Lots of links to other programs and sites here as well.

The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery, America's relationship with the United Nations, and hundreds of other items. The ideological debate over the guidelines, which drew intense scrutiny beyond Texas, will be used to teach about 4.8 million Texas students for the next 10 years. The standards also will be used by textbook publishers who often develop materials for other states based on those approved in Texas

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