Humanities II

Electronic classroom resources that I've heard are pretty good.

Education game creator.

StoryCorps is a nonprofit organization that records and gathers the stories of Americans from all walks of life. The stories range from light-hearted feel-good stories to serious and sometimes sad stories. Many of the stories are played on National Public Radio. Today, through my colleague Abbie Morrison (check out her great photography blog) I learned that StoryCorps has turned some of the stories into short, animated videos. So far there are five videos available that you can view on the StoryCorps site or view on Vimeo.

Effective study habits based in research

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.