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RADIO (+ FILM): The Artful Reinvention Of Klansman Asa Earl Carter

My wife knew all about this story - I, always uncool - did not. But what a whopper it is. LINKS... To the NPR story (above is a screenshot…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Apr 22, 2012

SLIDESHOW: Behind The Scenes of Power

Recently I asked a group of Social Studies teachers if they could teach history without images and they all agreed they could not. So began…

Started by Frank W. Baker

4 Apr 19, 2012
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WEBINAR: Smithsonian Offers Thomas Jefferson Event

On April 27, 2012 the Smithsonian Institution and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello will offer a free interactive online conference developed f…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Apr 13, 2012

VIDEO: Tucson's Mexican-American Studies Ban Daily Show

This is a classic Daily Show clip in that it simultaneously hilarious and beyond disturbing.   The following blog hyperlinks to a bunch o…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Apr 12, 2012

EXHIBIT: Pop Culture Meets American History

 Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" have a new home with a diverse set of artifacts in a new timeline of American history that…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Apr 11, 2012

PHOTOS: Rare images from the day MLK was killed

On April 4, 1968, LIFE magazine photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther K…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Apr 4, 2012

EXHIBIT/BOOK: “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights”

“For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” is the title of a traveling exhibit opening soon in Kansas Cit…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Apr 1, 2012

VIDEO: What are Super PACS?

Ask students what a Super PAC is and what do you think they'll say? Here is a video, produced by the investigative journalism site ProPubli…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Mar 20, 2012

The Murder of Abraham Lincoln GN

Another entry in the Treasury of Victorian Murder series, The Murder of Abraham Lincoln details a 62 day period in US history, from March 4…

Started by Stergios Botzakis

0 Mar 10, 2012

NYTLN: Slide Show - Times Photographs of the Civil Rights Era

Another great resource collection from the New York Times Learning Network From the resource: Rather than providing extensive lesson ideas…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Mar 7, 2012

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