This resource produced by Brown University is meant to accompany the university's self-created curriculum The United States in Afghanistan. The series itself consists of videos in various scholars and political officials analyze the student readings contained in the printed curriculum. There is also a separate page with Videos for Lessons, which are meant to accompany the teacher's guide portion of the curriculum.
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"As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the 20th century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes—to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote or educate and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Verna Posever Curtis traces the rise of the album from the turn of the last century to the present day."
This resource produced by Brown University is meant to accompany the university's self-created curriculum A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq. The series itself consists of videos in various scholars and political officials analyze the student readings contained in the printed curriculum. There is also a separate page with Videos for Lessons, which are meant to accompany the teacher's guide portion of the curriculum.
This collection of newspaper articles and photographs from two Arkansas newspapers explores the 1957 crisis in the city of Little Rock. National attention focused on the city when Governor Orval Faubus refused to allow nine African American students to desegregate the city's all-white Central High School, despite federal court rulings to the contrary. In response, President Dwight D. Eisenhower reluctantly became the first president since Reconstruction to send federal troops to protect the rights of African Americans.
Materials include news articles and editorials from each day of the month-long crisis, articles on the anniversaries from 1997 to 2000, and 16 photographs. In addition, material on the 40th anniversary of the crisis is provided: 19 op-ed pieces, speeches, an interview with President Clinton, timelines, and a 1991 defense by Faubus of his actions.
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"During World War II, Chicago led the nation in urban food production with its Victory Gardens program of 1,500 community gardens and more than 250,000 home gardens. The city's North Park neighborhood was also home to the largest Victory Garden in the United States. In fact, the Victory Gardens campaign in Chicago was so successful that it was emulated across the country. Seventy years later, Chicago continues this tradition with an estimated 700 community gardens. In 2010, LaManda Joy launched the Peterson Garden Project, on land that was part of an original World War II Victory Garden from 1942-1945. The Peterson Garden is Chicago's largest community-allotment vegetable garden, with 157 plots tended by community members growing only organic vegetables. Volunteers and students also tend several garden plots and donate their produce to local food pantries and homeless shelters."
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"Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt, who, among other achievements, was the first African-American president of the Special Libraries Association (1978-1979), has written an autobiographical history of her remarkable life, called "The One and Only.""
According to the Kansas State Historical Society website:
"For many, The Wizard of Oz is a timeless story about a girl from Kansas. For others, it's an old-fashioned tale that needs to be more inclusive. This episode considers album covers from "The Wiz," a disco-era adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic."
This collection records stories and recollections associated with the history of science, technology, and medicine. Divided into groups by discipline, the Virtual Center is a directory of nearly 3,500 websites that deal with the history of science. The Practical Guide is a useful section that guides visitors through the process of planning, designing, and building a history-themed website. The Memory Bank allows visitors to share and read thoughts or recollection about any of ECHO's ongoing projects. Remembering the Moon Walk, for example, contains 130 responses from individuals who remember the event. Also included are collections featuring Women in Science and Engineering, Three Mile Island, and The Washington Metro. By registering, visitors can create their own memory bank using ECHO's tools for historians. The site would be an appropriate starting place for students researching a history of science topic.
Tunes, lyrics, recordings, sheet music—all are components of popular songs, and all can serve as evidence of peoples, places, and attitudes of the past. Written by Ronald J. Walters and John Spitzer, the guide "Making Sense of American Popular Song" provides a place for students and teachers to begin working with songs as a way of understanding the past.
An exhibit devoted to the Goldband Recording Corporation, a Southern regional recording company, located in Lake Charles, LA. From its inception in the mid-1940s, Goldband produced recordings in "some of the South's most important and distinctive musical styles and sounds, including Cajun, zydeco, blues, rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and swamp pop."
The site includes 23 selections in both streaming MP3 and Real Audio formats; short biographical notes of 100200 words in length on 24 artists who recorded at Goldband studio—including Freddie Fender and Dolly Parton at age 13; 32 photographs; and a 1,600-word essay on musical genres.
Provides three links to related sites, a 10-title bibliography, and an inventory of the full collection of corporate materials available at the UNC Library. Valuable for those studying Southern culture, music history, and postwar American popular culture.