Soc. Studies Gr. 8

Interesting information about Boston's fight against the Fugitive Slave Law... Towards the end there is a good excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison's law to prevent those holding public office to participate in the capturing of fugitive slaves 

Slave advertisements that Virginia planters and farmers placed in Maryland Newspapers 1840-1860

Key 2 minute video clips: Fugitive Slave Act and 2 on Harriet Beecher Stowe

decent overview comes with links to lesson plans and other activities

AA in War

Here you go Kate!!!

Great way for students to critically think about the purpose and effect of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Sources are already modified! 

great collection of resources on Holocaust, WWII, Nazi, Propaganda

accessible lesson plan/resources on propaganda. could be used for FHAO, political ads, consumer products, etc

my new favorite go-to for objective background on big national and international news. JURIST (http://jurist.org) is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

How WWII breaks out, interactive map

The letter that Schindler's Workers wrote. This is referenced at the end of the movie 

Pigeon -- 11 minute documentary on upstanders

very funny take on the asch conformity experiment 

modern mil gram 

A great NPR piece on Indian boarding schools for the new curriculum....

Collection of Joe Moakley documents regarding the Boston busing crisis

The last major event of the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement was The Longest Walk from February to July 1978. S

controversial Vogue cover, comparing LeBron James to a gorilla.

fascinating artist pushing the issues of race and celebrity

'radical', revolutionary art -- contemporary artist, Dread Scott, race and pushing the boundaries of art and controversial use of flags and burning US documents