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Educational video honoring Dr.Martin Luther King...
Always a timely message, powerfully conveyed by a diverse set of voices. 
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In honor of Juneteenth, and so that we may not forget our complicity in this evil institution: a map of slavery in the U.S. in 1860.
This is a great digital map showing the spatial distribution of slavery in the United States on the eve of the Civil War.
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Download at: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/internment/ for a larger version. A video about Japanese internment during World War II. Our democracy was forge...
This chilling video is a poignant look at a portion of U.S. history that many would rather not teach simply because they wish it never happened in the first place or wish to dismiss it as a historical abberation.
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"To get the lyrics or download the mp3, visit http://soomopublishing.com/declaration "
My students love these spoof videos.
Aulde de Barbuat's curator insight,
March 19, 2013 8:04 PM
I have added the lyrics to the original post from this great scoopit curated by Seth Dixon
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Fifty years ago, LIFE traveled to Berlin to chronicle the construction of a wall. What the magazine's photographers found there was a barrier between worlds — and the brute symbol of the Cold War.
Excellent Cold War pictures.
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Commonwealth Fund finds the status of healthcare system in the US compared with other developed nations...
United States citizens pay the most in the world for healthcare, but that spending does not translate into improvements in the healthcare system and in the best health in the world. Why are so many other developed countries ranked higher in health care while spending less? How does poverty impact healthcare patterns within the United States? The above image shows per capita healthcare spending found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/datablog/2010/apr/29/factfile-uk-health
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You don't have to major in history to read these books--All you need is a passion for history, learning and a love of reading. Here is a list of a few of the great books about America's past. They offer an education on the complexities of the history of the United States you likely didn't get in many formal history classes.
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fun and and amazing facts about the united states and its history...
This is a great list of trivial, but insightful tidbit about the United States of America. Happy 4th of July!
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Of each dollar the federal government spends, how much goes to health care? How much goes to defense? How much goes to other programs? And how has spending changed over time?
How have American politics changed over the years? What influences these changes? What do you expect this graph to look like in the future?
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The Library at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has a catalog of political cartoons from 1941-1943 by Dr. Seuss in their special collections.
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FOR LYRICS GO TO http://www.soomopublishing.com/suffrage WATCH THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO: http://youtu.be/MuPCfIM3NWo Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage is a pa...
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"THE RHODE ISLAND STATE HOUSE in Providence is an imposing structure. It is also an architecturally significant one. Built of white Georgia marble between 1895 and 1904, it has one of only four self- supporting marble covered domes found in the world. It was placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. When you enter the building and make your way up to the second floor rotunda, you come to the building's State Reception Room. Looking around, you encounter many diverse historical artifacts such as a small Rhode Island flag that orbited the moon during the Apollo II mission and the silver service set of the battleship USS Rhode Island. However, on the west wall hangs the room's real treasure—an 1802 full-length portrait of George Washington by America's premier portrait artist Gilbert Stuart. At first nothing about it jumps out at you. After all, Washington's image is everywhere in the United States—even the world—and certainly appropriate in the context of an American government state house. But a full-length portrait of Washington and by an artist of the stature of Gilbert Stuart? What could be the story behind this particular work and how and why did it find its way here?"
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Michael Snow: The overwhelming response to the 1940 Census release shows our hunger for family history, when America was on the cusp of momentous change.
This Census becomes available at a time when geneology is becoming increasingly important within our society. Also the digital tools that facilitate collaboration and research are becoming more common and more compatible. This is an important research to to make the history on the eve of WWII all the more personal and relevant. To access the archive, visit: http://1940census.archives.gov/ ;
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First, does anyone really think that students will remember anything from the books' dull and lifeless paragraphs? Today's textbooks contain no stories of actual people.
I enjoy St. Patrick's Day as much as the next guy, but it is a time to re-evaluate the historical Irish-American experience as taught in schools. The article argues that since most textbooks lack compelling personal narratives that convey the horros of the potato famine and the level of desperation that many 19th century immigrants felt, 21st century students fail to empathize with the plight of the Irish. Primary source documents are great remedy to this and the article links you to some great ones from the Zinn Education Project.
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Before his career as a beloved children's author, Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist. These 'fake' titles capture an allegorical reading of Dr. Seuss that at time is not so subtle (The Butter Battle Book and the Lorax are the most obvious IMHO). THis link takes you to the Special Collections of UCSD with houses the archive on Dr. Seuss' political cartoons.
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