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MY love for Ken Burns knows no bounds. That is especially true of his documentary "The West" which has a lot of incredible information and images about not only the American settlement of the West, but its indigenous peoples as well. I particularly love this episode, which does a wonderful job discussing the cultures of the first people of the Americas and initial European encounters. (Jamie)

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Another great exercise when discussing cultural values and legislation in the Constitution Unit includes this interactive map, where students can select a constitutional right and see what other nations around the world share - or do not share - those rights. It also contains the historical background of each, to help them situation it in the past, as well. (Jamie)

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Constitutional Rights Origins and Travels1

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What rights does the United States share with other countries around the world? At least 32 separate rights are found in the United States Constitution; explore which other countries have adopted similar rights.

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I love the Bill of Rights Institute! They have a wonderful page that contains background information about founders of the US - what I really love is that it contains men AND women, not just the typical "founding fathers." There are also interactive options for students. My favorite is one that shows images that change based on which "rights" were to go away. It's a great way for students to get a visual of how Revolutionary period concerns and establishments continue to impact their lives. (Jamie)

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Explore the lives of 25 of the men and women who shaped the United States in our America's Founders Gallery. These are the people who helped frame our constitutional republic system of government.

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America's Founders Online - Bill of Rights Institute

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Explore the lives of 25 of the men and women who shaped the United States in our America's Founders Gallery. These are the people who helped frame our constitutional republic system of government.

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In lieu of having infinite money and resources to have a thousand fossils to show every student, eFossils is an amazing online resource! Students can play by site or species and see the bones in really high resolution, plus read about each fossil as they are exploring.

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eFossils.org is dedicated to sharing information about early fossil hominins and their evolutionary context. Visitors can learn from site reports contributed by researchers, view images of fossil skeletal anatomy, and complete lessons and activities about human origins and evolution.

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I *love* this particular YouTube channel for the intro section of my Anth 130 course (the biology part). They do such a . great job of breaking down basic biology and ecology concepts, from meiosis to speciation forces, and the animations are adorable.

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Amoeba Sisters Biology Learning Playlist

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This Amoeba Sisters Biology Learning Playlist contains ALL of our biology videos. If we update any of these videos with improved illustrations or audio, we r…

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Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite depictions of sorcery: John William Waterhouse, "The Magic Circle"

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Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite depictions of sorcery: John William Waterhouse, "The Magic Circle"

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If you use paintings in your course, I've always found Mark Harden's Artchive to be a helpful source of images for my classes. Wikimedia Commons also has images organized into helpful categories (like sorcery). (Corinne)

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I can't get over the Khan Academy website! The videos on history manage to be clear while embracing the complexity of topics like the early development of Judaism. (Corinne)

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Overview of early Judaism part 1 | World History | Khan Academy

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I also wanted to post this hauntingly beautiful audio by Billie Holiday. A song about lynching. The scratchy record sound and quality of her voice are as important as the words! What a cool thing for a tech-driven online class! (Kelly)

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Strange Fruit : Billie Holiday and her Orchestra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Performer: Billie Holiday and her Orchestra; Sonny WhiteWriter: Lewis AllanPiano Interlude.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to...

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At  minute 17:00 you can watch a very interesting video on a Jim Crow era "museum." This clip is also super useful because it compares the LGBTQ rights movement and persecution to Jim Crow... I think this will be great for class discussion. (Kelly)

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Jim Crow Museum & Adam Rippon Gets Real: VICE News Tonight Full Episode (HBO)

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I LOVE teaching with podcasts - for on-line students this feels like a chance to take notes and hear new voices while learning in an interesting auditory manner. Here is one on the dangers of traveling while African American during the Civil Rights Era. I have quite few I plan to use in my class (Kelly)

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The middle of the 20th Century was a golden age for road travel in the United States. Cars had become cheap and spacious enough to carry families comfortably for hundreds of miles. The Interstate Highway System had started to connect the country's smaller roads in a vast nationwide network. Finally, tourists could make their way from New York to California, seeing the grandeur of America along the way. That freedom and mobility, however, was not equally available to everyone.

In 1956, the year that federal funding made the Interstate Highway System possible, Jim Crow was still the law of the land. In the South, racial segregation was enforced by law - and had been since shortly after Reconstruction. In many parts of the North, the codes were enforced in practice. This reality made cross-country trips complicated, and sometimes even perilous, for black travelers.

Some African-American tourists would drive all night instead of trying to find lodging in an unfamiliar and possibly dangerous town. They would pack picnics so they could avoid stopping at restaurants that might refuse to serve them. Some people would even carry portable toilets in the trunks of their cars, knowing there was a good chance they would be turned away from roadside restrooms.

But in 1936, a man named Victor Hugo Green started a travel guide to make life on the road easier and safer for black motorists.

The guide listed, state by state, the restaurants, hotels, service stations, and other businesses that would welcome African-American travelers. Green called it " The Negro Motorist Green Book," or "The Green Book," for short.

Green did not have the most obvious background for starting a travel guide. He was not in the tourism industry, nor was he a writer; he was a mailman in Hackensack, New Jersey, who kept hearing stories about discrimination on the road. He was also not the first to come up with an idea of this kind. Jewish tourists, who also faced discrimination while traveling, had relied on similar guides to steer them away from hotels with a "Gentiles Only" policy.

In the Green Book's early days, it wasn't easy to compile listings from across the country, says playwright, author, and filmmaker Calvin Alexander Ramsey, who has researched the history of the guide. So Ramsey says Green tapped into a nationwide network of African-American letter carriers. These postal workers, familiar with their local communities, were ideally suited to help fill in the gaps from state to state.

As the Green Book caught on, businesses began to get in touch, asking to be listed. Black newspapers signed on as sponsors. The United States Travel Bureau helped spread the word about the guide. Eventually, Green retired from mail delivery to work full-time on the guide and to open a travel agency.

Distribution of the guide remained a challenge, says Ramsey, and Green relied on informal networks like the National Urban League, the NAACP, masonic lodges, and churches around the country.

There was also a big corporate sponsor that helped the guide expand its reach: Esso, also known as Standard Oil, and now known as ExxonMobil. The company may have supported the guide out of a sense of fairness and equality. John D. Rockefeller, who founded Standard Oil in 1870, had married into a family of abolitionists and voted for Abraham Lincoln. But there were certainly economic motivators as well. If African-American tourists felt comfortable on the road, they would travel more and buy more gas.

The Green Book would come to feature listings across all 50 states as well as locations in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. About 15,000 copies were printed each year.

As the NAACP pushed for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed racial discrimination, the black traveler became a key example in their argument to Congress. They appealed to that vision of the iconic family road trip, and the freedom to explore America by car. In his testimony before Senate in 1963, the NAACP's Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins asked senators to imagine themselves as black travelers:

How far do you drive each day? Where and under what conditions can you and your family eat? Where can they use a restroom? Can you stop driving after a reasonable day behind the wheel, or must you drive until you reach a city where relatives or friends will accommodate you and yours for the night? Will your children be denied a soft drink or an ice cream cone because they are not white?

Framing the narrative of civil rights as a family travel narrative helped convince senators to vote for the bill. The last edition of the book was published in 1966.

At the time of their publication, Green Books were relatively inexpensive and imminently practical, something bought to be used. Today, copies of the Green Book are scarce and valuable, collector's items that, thankfully, are no longer needed to make travelers safe on the road. One recently sold at auction for over $20,000.

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I've become interested in the idea of content curation, both as a way for me to collect and present content and as an assignment for students.