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Art
Biography
Human
Rights
African American History
Arab/Muslim Issues
Gay/Lesbian
Holocaust
Japanese
Internment
US
Department of State
Native
Americans
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Media Literacy
Poetry
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Art links for your animal picture books. |
EPA for ideas
on endangered species.
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Human
Rights Links |
African American History
Civil Rights
Museum - African American history -
check out the exhibits and gallery.
Digital History has links
to many pages related to slavery, with bills of sale and personal
narratives.
Slavery and the Making of
America
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Arab/Muslim Issues:
BBC News.
An Iraqi Family Comes to America
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
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Gay/Lesbian
Parent and family
support group pages
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Holocaust Web Sites
PBS site on the Holocaust.
Click on Special Feature to read letters written between Kurt Klein in
America and his family in Europe.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Learn about the Holocaust through art
This site contains vast quantities of resources about the holocaust.
United States Holocaust Memorial
The
USHMM pages for
students at the Multnomah County
Library, Oregon site
Contains over 70 interviews with people who were
interned during the Holocaust
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Japanese Internment
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has
much information about this period of "prejudice and fear." It
includes music, text, photographs and first-person accounts.
Japanese American
National Museum - Letters from the
camps, daily life, and frequently asked questions about Japanese
Internment.
The Camp Harmony exhibit, with
photographs, the camp newsletter and more.
Japanese American Museum pages containing letters home and life in the
camps and after
The Japanese American Legacy Project presents the
Densho pages from the
point of view of those who lived in these times and those who wish to
honor their memories.
Native Americans
Background information
about the history of the Trail of Tears, posted and copyrighted to Golden
Ink.
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Vietnam War Information
Includes photographs and timelines of the United
States involvement in Vietnam
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Media Literacy Links for
parents and kids
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Includes information related to video games, television, and media-related
issues.
The Center for Media Literacy, offers articles, studies and other
information including "How to Teach Media Literacy."
The Media Channel, offers lesson plans
and other educational resources.
Alerts kids as to the tricks used in media to entice them
to buy items.
Teachers a wide variety of information to educate parents and children
alike as to issues related to the media.
Look for the games and pseudo-sites for web page
evaluation
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Poetry Links
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Academy
of American Poets
Search for
200 American poets by name.
Lost
Poets of the Great War Six
poets of World War I
Wilfred Own
Brief biographical information about
this poet.
Modern American Poetry
Contains
over 150 poets.
A
Timeline of the Life of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Edgar Allen
Poe - brief biographical information.
A link to the poetry
of John Greenleaf Whittier and autobiographical information.
Also useful is our
World Book On-Line
for brief biographic information on poets and their lives.
Remember to search
Athena to look
for poets or collections of poetry. The Encyclopedia of World
Biography is also helpful.
The
Index to Poetry is shelved in the Reference section at REF/ 808.81 /IND.
You can look up the poets name, the title of a poem, or the subject of a
poem. Then turn to the front of the index to see in what collection of
poetry the poem is printed.
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